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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ainamoi, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Samuel Chepkong’a",
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    "content": " On a point of order, Hon. Speaker. Let me read out Standing Order 83 for the benefit of Members. I hope whoever sits in your Chair will enforce it. We cannot purport to be ignorant of what the law says. We approve our own Standing Orders and then we come here putting up our hands, shouting at the Speaker and then you say: “I rise on a point of order.” Standing Order 83 reads as follows: “(1) Any Member may raise a point of order at any time during the speech of another Member stating that the Member rises on a point of order and that Member shall be required to indicate the Standing Order upon which the point of order is based.” Hon. Speaker, the emphasis here is the word “shall” – which means it is mandatory. If somebody rises on a point of order and he does not quote the standing order under which he is rising, I expect whoever is sitting in your seat, whether it is yourself or Hon. Wangari here to rule that person out of order until they find the Standing Order on which they are standing on. The reason why we become unruly and even sabotage debate in this House is that people do not know what Standing Order they are standing on. Article 117(1) of the Constitution states very clearly that there shall be freedom of speech and debate in Parliament. That speech is guided by the Standing Orders. If you think that the Standing Orders do not matter, we should bring a Motion and expunge them so that we become a lawless debating Chamber. I thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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