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"speaker_name": "Ruaraka, ODM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. T.J. Kajwang’",
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"content": " Good morning, Hon. Speaker. We are all excited to have you presiding over this Sitting. The Member for Garissa Township, Hon. Duale, has raised a pertinent issue and is requesting for your direction. Even as you think through the matter to give direction on it, may I add that a few things happened on that day that are important to note. When you retire and look at the Hansard, you will see that it is true that Hon. Alice Wahome’s amendments were negatived. I am speaking as the Vice-Chairperson of the Committee that was prosecuting those amendments. She was seeking for a deletion. I have been in the Speakers Panel before and ordinarily, it would have worked. Ordinarily, the other Movers of the amendments would then have risen in their places to execute their amendments. However, soon after Hon. Alice Wahome’s amendments were dropped, the Hansard will show you clearly that we went to the global Question, which was put and acceded to by a majority. There was a Division to it and votes were taken. In this case, the global Question meant that the clause as amended or retained as it was in the Bill. It is true that it could be an infraction of the procedure because one would have thought that Hon. Duale and other people who had amendments would have prosecuted their amendments. However, the House proceeded in the manner in which we were constituted. As you know, we had a very interesting House on that day. What happened is that the global Question was put and acceded to. There was a Division to it, which was overwhelmingly carried by a vote."
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