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    "id": 1072025,
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    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, I want you to guide the House. We are turning the plenary into discussing what the Committee on Powers and Privileges should hear under your chairmanship. The whole country is watching us. We cannot conduct the business of a committee of this House, which you chair, in the plenary. The route Hon. Nyoro is taking, saying he is going to name people, means we are moving from one murky issue to another. I have been here and I am sure Hon. Mbadi and Hon. Kimunya will agree with me. In the 10th Parliament when we were sitting where the Senate Chamber currently is, the great lady and then Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Hon. Martha Karua—I can remember, I will go back to the Hansard —said, “This House has been turned into the biggest auction House.” A number of times, Members have even called others rent seekers. You remember that time, the matters were referred to the Powers and Privileges Committee. Some Members ended up being invited by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission. We just finished, in the last Parliament, dealing with the matter of mercury and sugar, and your Committee made recommendations. When a Member is named, the route is not this one. The route is different. The Member should be given an opportunity to appear before the Powers and Privileges Committee. In the 11th Parliament, we wanted to amend the Standing Orders and introduce, just like the House of Commons, a standard and ethics officer within Parliament. We must do it. We must have a standards and ethics officer. Hon. Speaker, you brought it up. We wanted to amend the Standing Orders. On that day, if the Hansard can bear me witness, I said that you better have your own internal officer. Today, we are the standard and ethics officer. By now, the Speaker could have heard the truth or the lies behind this matter. The earlier you give direction to this debate, the better. I agree with you that we vote electronically. I have never seen people vote through the stomach. Hon. Ndindi has serious privileged information. If he has it, he can give it. The moment he mentions the Member for Garissa in this plenary, or the Member for Limuru, or the Member for Suba, then it becomes another sensational matter. It affects the integrity of Members, their The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"
}