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    "id": 344784,
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    "content": "OUTSTANDING REQUEST BY HON. MWAU TO EXPUNGE SOME DOCUMENTS FROM HANSARD RECORDS Hon. Members, this is in relation to a request made to Mr. Speaker yesterday by the Member for Kilome, hon. Mwau. Hon. Mwau claimed that a request he had made on 23rd March, 2012, that certain documents be expunged from the records of the House and in respect of which a ruling was promised, was outstanding. At the outset, it is important for the benefit of all of us that accurate records are kept to clarify that this House was not in Session and did not sit on 23rd March, 2012. Accordingly, no ruling could have been sought from the Chair in the House on that day and none would have been promised. It would seem, however, that hon. Mwau was referring to the proceedings of the House on 13th March, 2012, when he made a request of the same import as he did yesterday. The HANSARD record on that occasion, however, does not indicate that the Speaker promised a ruling. That notwithstanding as hon. Mwau has severally canvassed this matter in the House, it is apt that I make this ruling. Hon. Members, the matter that has culminated in the request by hon. Mwau for the expunging of a document from the records of the House has a long history. It began with a Personal Statement made in the House on 21st December, 2010 by hon. Gideon Mbuvi also known as Sonko, the Member for Makadara, in relation to an alleged raid at his house in Buru Buru and reported forceful entry into his office at Parliament in Continental House by the police. The following day, 22nd December, 2010, the Minister of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security, the late hon. Prof. George Saitoti, in explaining by a Ministerial Statement the forceful police access"
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