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    "id": 1422702,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. TJ Kajwang’, I have no doubt that you have been listening to me. I know you are a very brilliant, distinguished, learned junior. I have said that under the Constitution – you remember what Senior Counsel Otiende Amollo raised and pointed out – the precedence we are setting is the observance of the Constitution and our Standing Orders. When the Report comes back to the House and says that the allegations are unsubstantiated, the matter ends there; even the idea of reading the Report becomes an academic exercise. That Report is available in the Table Office for anybody who wants to read it. You can pick it and read it. The converse is that if the Report had found the allegations substantiated, then the Speaker would have been obligated to set another day for the House to sit and, as a plenary, debate it and vote on it. At that stage, anybody can peruse, mark, underline, and critique the Report and then convince the House that the Report is right or wrong. A decision will be made through a vote by the whole House. In the absence of the latter, then the idea of Members reading the Report remains academic. The Speaker cannot stop you from looking for and reading the Report later. The Speaker can also not stop you from going out there and commenting on the Report. However, the chips will lie where they fell, on the floor of this House. So, I will now go back to where I started. The first Member I will call to comment is Julius Melly."
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