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    "id": 1524878,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1524878/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kajiado North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Onesmus Ngogoyo",
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    "content": "“176. (2) The party whip of the party that nominated a Member to a select Committee shall give notice in writing to the Speaker of the intention to discharge a Member from a select Committee.” Standing Order 176(3), which is most important, states: “176. (3) The Speaker shall, within three days of receipt of the notice under paragraph (2), inform the Member of the notice.” I am a Member of the Departmental Committee on Environment, Forestry and Mining. If I am to be removed from the Committee, Standing Order 176 shall apply under Standing Order 216. It is indicated in our Standing Orders. You cannot remove a Member from a Committee. I am not on the list of Members serving in the Departmental Committee on Environment, Forestry and Mining, which I was nominated to at the beginning of this Parliament. Even if Hon. Osoro and Hon. Ichung’wah do not want me on that Committee, they must remove me procedurally. Give me a hearing and notify the Speaker to give me a notice. It would not be in order to continue with whatever is happening here. It is okay to remove me from the Committee because our procedures and rules provide for it, but that should be done procedurally. Hon. Speaker, you are one of the creators of the Standing Orders. I have used them for the last 12 years. I was a Whip of a County Assembly so I know how to use the Standing Orders. I should receive a letter, be accorded a hearing, and notice given to the Speaker, who should inform me within three days. You cannot remove me. I have been a Member of that Committee, and I cannot be removed in the manner in which you want to, however powerful you might be. It is not correct. Whatever has been tabled before this House is null and void and cannot operate. We have Standing Orders, procedures, rules and traditions of this House. When Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah and several other Members were de-whipped from Committees, Hon. Wangwe, the immediate former Chief Whip of the Majority Party, wrote letters to specific Members. Apart from that, communications were done directly to the Speaker. The Speaker cannot oversee my removal from a Departmental Committee without I being discharged by my political party. Hon. Speaker, because you are the Solomon of this House, kindly do not proceed with this Motion in the state that it is in. It would be unprocedural. This is the making of Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah, which cannot work in this Assembly."
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