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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Speaker",
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    "content": "You ought to have an answer and, maybe, for the purpose of the rest of the membership, I want to link up the provisions of that Standing Order. Petitions, as you are all aware, are provided for, beginning from Standing Order Nos.200, 206, 207, 208, 209 and finally 210. I want all hon. Members to be aware of those provisions and, in particular, those hon. Members that may be chairing different parliamentary departmental or select committees. I would like to read Standing Order No.210. It reads:- (1) “Every Petition presented pursuant to this Standing Order shall stand committed to the relevant department of the Government or committee of the House as the case may be. (2) Whenever a Petition is committed to a department of the Government, the Minister responsible or any other designated Minister shall, in not more than twenty one calendar days from the time of reading the prayer, respond to the petitioner by way of a Statement in the House addressed to the petitioner or petitioners. (3) Whenever a Petition is committed to the National Assembly, the relevant committee shall, in not more than twenty one calendar days from the time of reading the prayers, respond to the petitioner by way of a report addressed to the petitioner or petitioners and laid on the table of the House and no debate on or in relation to the report shall be allowed. (4) The Clerk shall, at the end of every Session, forward Petitions which have been approved by the Speaker and not been presented to the House, to the relevant department of the Government and such department of the Government shall reply to each Petition forwarded in not more than twenty one calendar days.” Mr. Mutava Musyimi, your committee is obligated under the provisions of Standing Order No.210, paragraph (3) to respond to the petitioner by way of a report addressed to the petitioner or petitioners and laid on the Table of the House. You have laid reports pursuant to those petitions on the Table of the House but you have to go further and address those reports to the petitioners and or their representatives. I would want you to confirm that you will take that step."
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