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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kingi",
    "speaker_title": "The Speaker",
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    "content": " You will have an opportunity to speak, Sen. Sifuna. Let me just dispense with the point of order by Sen. Mandago and Sen. Madzayo. Hon. Senate Minority Leader, you have been in this Senate longer than most of the Senators in this House. The Speaker, the Deputy Speaker and any Member of the Speaker’s Panel, while sitting on this Chair, exercises the powers of the Speaker. I remember the hon. Senator of Nairobi defining the word ‘Speaker’ to include the Deputy Speaker and Members of the Speaker’s Panel. Let us not split hairs. The Deputy Speaker, while sitting on this Chair, was exercising the powers of the Speaker of the House at that particular juncture. Whatever he said or ruled is deemed the ruling of the Chair and is binding. I cannot sit to appeal or review an order that was made by the Deputy Speaker or any Member of the Speaker’s Panel. Therefore, if there was a ruling that was made by my Deputy, it is the ruling of the Chair, pursuant to the Standing Orders, and I am not in a position to disturb that ruling. Going by what Sen. Mandago has raised on a point of order, Senate Minority Leader, you cannot certainly discuss the conduct of the Deputy Speaker. The Standing Order No.101, as quoted by Sen. Madzayo, is very clear. The Deputy Speaker was sitting as the Speaker. He ruled as the Speaker and not as a lesser Speaker. Therefore, we abide by the rulings made by the Deputy Speaker, if there were any rulings made, unless I am told that no rulings were made. If there was a ruling made, then that ruling is binding. I cannot disturb it."
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