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    "content": "Order! Before the Assistant Minister stands up to respond to that question, hon. Members will notice that the Member for Kisumu Town East, in fact, went into a very long address which lasted about three minutes. This habit does not appear to be applying to the Member for Kisumu Town East alone. It is actually developing in this House. I want just to refer the hon. Members back to Standing Order No.43, because we intend to enforce this Standing Order to the letter. If we have not done so in the past, beginning from today, we will. So, I want the hon. Members to take notice that this is what we will do. Standing Order No.43, paragraph 1, on contents of Questions reads:- “Except as the Speaker may otherwise allow, a Question shall not be in effect a speech or limited to give information or framed so as to suggest its own answer or to convey a particular point of view.” You will notice that many hon. Members have been guilty of this, and quite a few times we let it pass. Occasionally, Members who look at me will see me smiling. So, I actually just let it pass. But if we apply the rules strictly, so that we use our time optimally which is one hour for Question Time, then we will not allow such situations. Each Question ought to last a maximum of five minutes. So, ideally, we should deal with 12 Questions in every sitting that pertains to Questions. The second part that is important is paragraph 3 which says this:- “A Question shall not contain any argument, inference, opinion, imputation or ironical or offensive expression or epithet.” A lot of us engage in those arguments which are not permissible. There is also paragraph 2 which says in part:- “The facts on which a Question is based may be set out briefly---” Now, we intend to enforce this Standing Order strictly from now onwards. Lest Members say that they were not put on notice, I have now put you on notice and all Members of the Speaker’s Panel will apply this rule to the letter."
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