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"content": "or party nationalism in you. You should judge your colleagues, and judge them fairly or unfairly. This, for example, would be a replica of the military term where we would be having this replicating itself like the military police, which is slightly above the ordinary military in terms of discipline. In this one, we have asked the House to allow Members who have served a little longer, have some specific qualifications, so that, for example, if you have Hon. Wamunyinyi in the next term - and his looks are very promising - you would want to have him. Hon Speaker, I do not know, because you have declared that you do not want to be here in the next Parliament, yet, you are the person we would have wanted to manage such a committee because of experience. If you want such experience from somebody other than the Speaker, we would be talking about people like Hon. Wamunyinyi, who have been here for a very long time, and who would understand that once you come in here, even if you came from a certain political party, all the Members would be your colleagues. You will need to deal with them as colleagues. It does not matter whether they are from FORD-Kenya, ODM, Jubilee or any other party. The kind of Members who will rise above things, and this can only be done by a person who has served here a little longer. Member for Kabuchai, if you come back, and I think you will, you will qualify as some of the Members who are qualified, but just know there are others who will be more qualified like Hon. Wamunyinyi, Hon. Jimmy, and the ones serving in certain offices like the Majority Whip, who has served here for this term and is now in a leadership office. If he came back, he would deserve to be in some of the committees that are being created. Hon. Jude Jomo and others happen to be one of the senior Members. There are quite a number of senior Members too, but I am saying that this is a creation. I will not want to go into everything because it is in detail. It is a challenge that you have just given to us that Members should read. Once a document has been tabled here, Members should simply go to the Table Office between Room 7 and Room 9, take the document and read it. You should go through it. By the way, we are not late. The amendments would probably not be done today. Today is for debating. You have opportunity to look at some of these things, modify them, if you wish, and I hope you do not modify them too much because it has gone through a lot of thought. But if there is something that you need to add that will add value, that will be good. As I finalise, and as I started before, we are doing a political will on how the Standing Orders will serve in the next Parliament. Hon. Speaker, I take this is opportunity to thank you because of how you have managed to steer this House for the last ten years. Let us put it to nine years because in the last term, we had a shorter period to serve. You have done well. It is not easy for people to tell you this because many times, you are steering debates here, you are not in the public, and the public is happy with you, but most importantly, the Members are extremely happy with the way you handled this House. You may not find time, Hon. Speaker, to be in all these social places that are here for Members to tell you personally that they are very proud of you. I served in many offices down here including one that is very close to the chamber, and truly, we are proud of you. As it is now, when we become a little bit sophisticated, this is like when you are in a flying plane, the pilot arrives close to the destination, and he or she will advise that we are about to begin to descend to the land. This is the beginning of our descend; the 12th Parliament is descending, and we hope we will fly again. Hon. Members, as I wish the Speaker well in all his endeavors, I also want to take this opportunity to wish you well. I know this is a speech that should be made when there would be an adjournment sine die, but many will want to speak at that time. I hope I will still have 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."
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