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    "id": 1589563,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Elias Mutuma",
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    "content": "Strangely now, the House is suddenly in an autopilot. From Hon. Major, then we see the Speaker opening the Floor. You have Hon. Peter Losu. He continues. Without the intervention of the Speaker, there is another Member, Hon. Salesio Kiambi, who proceeds, as if the Speaker and the Clerk are not in the House. Another Member just rises up from nowhere. There is no recording of the Speaker inviting any Member to make a contribution to this Motion, apart from, of course, page 39, when suddenly the person ‘cooking’ this HANSARD realizes the Speaker has not been captured in this. Now, we see the Speaker for the first time. In conclusion, because I do not want to take more time on this since my senior is going to take time to address you on the other issue, look at page 41. After the Members purportedly complete to make their submissions, the Speaker makes very strange remarks and I quote- “Clerk, is the Governor or his legal representative available? Serjeant-at- Arms, can you check around if the Governor or his legal representative are present?” The Speaker does not even take time to communicate to the House whether the Governor had been invited. He does not even read that invitation notice as required. So, why is he calling for the Governor, whom learned counsel had told you was invited to appear at 9.00 a.m. and we are at 12 o'clock? The Speaker is not seen anywhere saying that we invited the Governor vide this letter and he has not come, but instead asked the clerk to check whether the Governor is available anywhere. Let us proceed, I am concluding. This is going to shock you. When the Governor was confirmed not to be in the House, the Speaker proceeds to guide the House on the next move. At the end of that page 41, I read what the Speaker says. I am reading the last part. “When the doors have been locked, the bar drawn and the names of the tellers have been announced, the Speaker shall put the question again in the presence of the tellers. When called out, each Member shall thereupon rise in his or her place and declare assent or dissent to the question in the following manner; I vote ‘yes’ or I vote ‘nay.’ It proceeds on page 42. Where does the Speaker put that question to the Members of the House present? There is no question put whatsoever. She has just told them that he needs to put that question again. There is no question put. So, what were these Members voting for or against? There is no question put. We then need to sit here and invite witnesses on the stand to demonstrate that there were no proceedings that took place on 26th and 18th. I rest my case."
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