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    "id": 1407002,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1407002/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Our Standing Orders are very clear. You have indulged Hon. Jared Okello, but he continues to say things that he should not be saying as he prosecutes his points. I do not know whether it is pre-empting debate, but he has now asserted that the Committee of 11 Members is going to torpedo the wishes of about 149 Members. I do not know at what point Hon. Jared Okello has now been able to sit in that Committee that has not even been constituted and decided what decisions it will come up with. Hon. Speaker, I know there are rules about anticipating debate and Hon. Jared Okello is not anticipating debate, he is anticipating the outcome of a process that is yet to start. The other thing is that we are the ones who have crafted these Standing Orders. Some of us here are part of the drafters of our Constitution. Article 152 of our Constitution was not drafted this morning. Our Standing Orders were not drafted this morning, neither were they drafted by the Leader of the Minority Party or the Leader of the Majority Party. They were drafted and approved by this House. We have numerously pleaded with Hon. Members to read, understand and interpret, not just the laws that we are passing, but also our Standing Orders. Hon. Jared Okello is now questioning the Standing Orders that govern this House. If we are truly a House of rules and procedures, Hon. Speaker, then you should not allow Hon. Jared Okello to stand in his place and question our own Standing Orders that govern even his conduct."
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