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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ethuro",
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        "legal_name": "Ekwee David Ethuro",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. You have a responsibility to this House in terms of maintaining its dignity and decorum. That is why we have Standing Orders. The Chair has been implicated in this matter; that the Chair was changed for purposes of determining the outcome. I would like you to find it offensive that, one, those of us who sit in the Speaker’s Panel, it is you who allocates those duties and we never do it because it is convenient to us. Two, when it comes to voting, there is electronic voting. What the hon. Member said suggests that the reforms we have put in this House and the Kshs1 billion we spent for this beautiful Chamber with an electronic voting system is influenced by the Chair when as we go to vote, everybody all over can see on the screen is what the “Noes” and “Ayes” are about. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would also like you to make in your ruling or the ruling of the Powers and Privileges Committee that it is time that Members of Parliament know that any matter before the Floor of the House must be deliberated and voted upon. The outcome can either be positive or negative and we must take the outcome as the House has resolved. We really have no other way by imputing improper motives on other hon. Members by deciding that because I had wanted it to go this way, it must be that way. I do not think that is acceptable and I think you must enforce that. Finally, I want to speak to the issue that Bishop Wanjiru has said on the role of the media. We have the House Broadcasting Committee and the Kenya Parliamentary Journalists Association. We have always said that the media must have a responsibility to the kind of information they are giving out. They cannot continue propagating the same information even when it is determined that it may not be extremely truthful. You know the case of Rwanda. This is not only for the utterances here because we are also going into a general election. If the media keeps on harping the things that are not correct and which affect the integrity of certain Members of this House including, Mr. Kimunya and the Governor of Central Bank of Kenya (CBK), not only is the integrity of Members of this House is being compromised but also other hon. Members who are working for this country. I would also like you to look at that particular matter. I would want to pose the question. Who bribes us when we work up to midnight? Who bribes us when we support Government Procedural Motions to extend the sitting time? Nobody"
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