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    "id": 158401,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, please, bear with me. It was necessary that just apart from the communication from my office, I verify and confirm that it is still in the form that I crafted it. I have been able to do that verification and I have authenticated the communication. I have appended my signature to it and there is only one communication that I have signed. If any other document circulates, it will not be mine. Hon. Members, on Thursday, 23rd April, 2009, just as the House was about to resume the interrupted debate on the Motion for approval by the House, of the names of Members nominated to serve on the House Business Committee (HBC), the Member for Kisumu Town West, Mr. Aluoch, stood on a point of order claiming to rise on an issue touching on the ability of this House to defend the Constitution. The hon. Member noted that the Motion for approval of Members of the House Business Committee had been brought by the Vice-President as Leader of Government Business (LGB). He, however, sought to know from the Chair, who under our Constitution is supposed to move the Motion? Citing the definition of the “Leader of Government Business” in the Standing Orders, which at Standing Order No.2 defines the “Leader of Government Business” as “the Minister designated by the Government as the Leader of Government Business in the House”, the hon. Member posed the question and I quote: -“Who is the Government in the context of the Kenyan situation?” The hon. Member went on to argue that the “Government”, in the context of the Kenyan situation is defined by the Constitution and the National Accord and Reconciliation Act, and that considering the functions of the Prime Minister as set out in"
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