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    "id": 158434,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Speaker",
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    "content": "Order, hon. Members! Arising from all of the foregoing, in making my pronouncements on the matters in issue, I wish to invoke Standing Order No.1 of our Standing Orders. That Standing Order stipulates that in all cases where matters are not expressly provided for by the Standing Orders or by other Orders of the House, procedural questions shall be decided by the Speaker. It further stipulates that in so doing, that the decisions the Speaker makes shall be based on the usages, forms, precedents, customs, procedures and traditions of the National Assembly of Kenya and other jurisdictions to the extent that these are applicable to Kenya. The Standing Orders clearly did not envisage nor provide for the current impasse. Hon. Members, I now rule as follows: Firstly, that in the current state of our Constitution, the laws and the Standing Orders, the office of the Speaker of the National Assembly is not well suited to determine and therefore, declines to determine who the Leader of Government Business shall be. In a situation where the Speaker has received two letters; one from His Excellency the President and the other from the Rt. hon. Prime Minister, each designating a different Minister as the Leader of Government Business, I am clear in my mind that the Constitution and the National Accord and Reconciliation Act contemplate only one indivisible Government of the Republic of Kenya."
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