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    "id": 1299292,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I just wanted to lend my understanding of that Standing Order before you make your decision. In my reading of Standing Order No.55, what is not admissible are extracts and quotations. Those are two very clear things. For instance, I cannot take the version of the Daily Nation Newspaper today and copy-paste something that has been written there. That is an extract or a quotation. However, if you are relying on a report that is in the media that is not the same as a quotation or indeed an extract. So, we need to be clear on what the Standing Order talks about. I cannot copy-paste quotations that I have seen in a newspaper and put them in the Statement. No. What they are saying is that they may be set out briefly, but you cannot put the entire quotations of a newspaper or extracts on the Statement. Otherwise, the request for a Statement itself is fine. Any other interpretation, I believe would result in an absurdity where, for instance, you cannot bring before the Floor of this House, a report that you have seen in the newspaper, for instance, on the demolitions going on in Mavoko, unless you live there yourself,"
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