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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, you will recall what followed were a number of interventions by five more hon. Members who rose to speak on point of order by the hon. Member for Kisumu Town West, providing various additional perspectives on the matter. I have carefully considered the point of order raised by the hon. Member for Kisumu Town West and the contributions made by other hon. Members on the Floor and I have also looked generally into the principle of Parliamentary powers and privileges. A privilege in the legal sense is an exemption from some duty, burden, Erskine May an authority in Parliamentary practice states:- “Parliamentary privilege is the sum of peculiar rights enjoyed by each House collectively as a constituent part of the High Court of Parliament, and by which members of each House individually, without which they could not discharge their functions, and which exceed those possessed by other bodies or individuals. Thus privilege, though part of the law of the land is to a certain extent an exemption from the general law.”"
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