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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise pursuant to Standing Order 20 to move - THAT, the Senate approves the nomination of the following Senators to serve in the Speaker’s Panel and to further preside over the Senate in the absence of the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker, pursuant to Article 107(1)(c) of the Constitution and Standing Order 18 of the Senate- (1) Sen. Wakili Hillary Kiprotich Sigei, MP (2) Sen. Veronica W. Nduati, MP (3) Sen. Abdul Mohammed Haji, MP (4) Sen. Catherine Muyeka Mumma, MP Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is fairly straight forward but I know that Sen. Omogeni has raised an issue with perhaps, the designation. I strongly believe that the Speaker’s Panel belongs to the Speaker. This is about administration of the House and you at the Speaker’s level sit and decide on how this House is to be presided over. As party leadership, we ensure that we nominate Members and then the House approves and says whether the Members are competent enough to sit in the Speaker’s Panel. At your administrative level, I believe you work with a schedule. Otherwise we run the risk of deciding on who gets to preside on which day and that the House needs to be informed. I find it to be rather too prescriptive if we are to follow that kind of thinking. Therefore, I plead with my colleague, Sen. Omogeni that we are not violating a constitutional principle. It is about nomenclature of how our Standing Orders have been founded. If it is the practice of the National Assembly to table their Motion as they have, I believe that is how they prefer to do it. I request my colleagues that we dispense of that matter which is a fairly straight forward issue on administration of the House. We need to conclude on this so that beginning next week, should we approval the list of Members to serve in various committees, the House can begin to work. I am cognizant of the fact that we are badly starved of time. It is now 3.49 p.m. and we have three or four other Motions of similar nature before we actually get to the Motion of Members to serve in various committees. I request - this we have done in consultation with the Senate Leader of Minority - that we quickly dispense of the first three Motions that are fairly procedural about who serves on the Committee on Powers and Privileges, the Speake’rs Panel and the Committee on Procedure and Rules and have our colleagues accepted. If there is a Senator who wants to speak broadly about membership of various committees, then we can reserve it for the main Motion on Senators serving in the Standing Committees. I guess that is where Senators have great interest. I want to request colleagues to agree with the general thinking. I request the Senate Leader of Minority to second."
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