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    "id": 356330,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, Sir, we thought that the Membership of Jubilee should thank God and the people of Kenya for giving them the mandate of having the majority. No matter what PIC or PAC will do, even if CORD has numbers and chairmanship, they can override it on the Floor of this House. Some induction would have been in order before we hit this deadlock. But we have not benefited from that. They would come and defeat any report. It will not make sense for anybody to be chairman of any Committee where the majority may never allow him or her to produce a report. That is the borne of our contention. You have said that you gave instructions to the Clerk to give you names. Standing Order No.173 - and I want to be a lawful Kenyan – spells how names can get to the Floor of the House. Standing Order No.173 gives the power to nominate Members to a Committee to the Selection Committee. That list can only go to the House Business Committee to prioritize it for debate here. From the House Business Committee, it can go to the Clerk to be put in the Order Paper. But there can be some pronouncement that the Clerk can be instructed to get the list. Without following that, we are trying to take this country and this Parliament in the wrong direction. It has never happened and I do not think it can go without us saying the right thing. I said here last week that we need to desist your office - your Executive Office - and the technical arm - which is the Office of the Clerk - from trying to deal with those Members without the House Business Committee. That is the role of the House Business Committee. What we are treating this House to this afternoon needed to have been a conversation in the Selection Committee and the House Business Committee. That is the rule. Let me thank the Majority Whip, who should have been the Majority Leader, because he is a thoroughly sharp man. He has said that the import of your ruling, which we want to respect even if we do not agree with it - but respect the Chair - is that we are back to square one. That is the import. You do not have 19 and we have 11 in those Committees, but he seems to be saying that he can form the Budget and Appropriations Committee which says that you can have a maximum of 51. He cannot. Standing Order No.174 kicks in. It talks about parliamentary parties with their majorities accommodating independent candidates and other parties. That is Standing Order No.174. So, he cannot do that in law. I want to plead with you. I know you and I have walked this path. These Standing Orders are causing conflicts in this House. You and I, requested for them for over one year and this House refused to release them to us. In other fora where we are concerned about constitutionality, we wanted to bisect them, make sense and subject them to public debate. I want to agree with hon. Ng’ongo that this document is not properly before this House. My colleagues are saying and even hon. Linturi has just said that this side, for self preservation, passed these Standing Orders because they thought they would be in the Government. That is what they seem to be saying, but the person who moved the Standing Orders is a Member of Jubilee and the Speaker of the Senate. Read before you walk into your mess. Read the HANSARD and see that the person who moved, for four hours, is now the Speaker of the Senate. He is 100 per cent Jubilee."
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