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    "content": "Member’s conduct was gross and unbecoming. As you are aware, Standing Order No.111 provides as follows: “If any Member shall refuse to withdraw when required to do so, by or under these Standing Orders, the Speaker or the Chairperson of Committee as the case may be, having called the attention of the House or Committee to the fact that recourse to force is necessary in order to compel such Member to withdraw, shall order such Member to be removed and such Member shall thereupon without question put be suspended from the service of the House for a minimum of twenty-one days and a maximum of ninety days and shall during such suspension, forfeit the right of access to the precincts of Parliament and the Sergeant- at-Arms shall take necessary action to enforce the order.” Hon. Members, despite calls from some of you for me to enforce this particular provision, I restrained myself from invoking Standing Order No.111 on that day, and I intend, for purposes of good order, to restrain myself from invoking it even today. However, it has not escaped the attention of this House that the Member for Embakasi East declined to leave the Chamber when he was ordered to do so by the Speaker. Due to the gross disorder that arose in this House thereafter, I deferred my ruling on the Member’s conduct to today. In this regard, I hereby order that the Member for Embakasi East, Hon. Babu Owino Ongili, to withdraw from the Chamber and from the precincts of the National Assembly for a period of five days, inclusive of today, on account of gross disorderly conduct pursuant to Standing Order No.107A of our Standing Orders. The Sergeant-At-Arms is to enforce this order immediately and if the Member is not presently in the Chamber, the Member shall not be allowed access to the precincts of Parliament or attendance to any Committee meetings or parliamentary functions during the five days of the suspension. Any Committee meeting attended by the Member during the five days shall be invalid since the Member is now deemed to be a stranger. Further, the Member shall not attend Committee meetings as a member of the public. Finally, may I draw the attention of the House, and in particular, the House leadership on both sides that this part of the Session has four weeks comprising of 16 sitting days only, unless the House decides to increase them by resolution. The following critical business with statutory timelines will need to be considered and passed by this House within those four weeks; (1) Budget Estimates for the 2022/2023 Financial Year; (2) The Appropriations Bill, 2022; (3) The Finance Bill, 2022; and, (4) The County Allocation of Revenue Bill, 2022."
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