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"content": "opportunity where you will deliver a ruling on this matter. Personally, I really cannot wait for that ruling because I believe this ruling will lay to rest - put it in bed as it were - an issue that really is a non-issue because all this discussion is being perpetuated by our sister House and, unfortunately, the media has also tried to fan this matter as seniority, upper this, lower that. It is really a debate that even a first year student of law will tell you it does not really need to arise because seniority does not arise from the number of people you represent. It does not arise from the side of the geographical area of the constituency you represent. Seniority or any other status only arises from functions and the mandate given by the Constitution of the Republic of Kenya. That is where you draw from, if the Senate is really interested in the definition of who is senior and who is junior and who is upper and who is lower. They should draw that mandate from the Constitution. It is really laughable for anyone to imagine that by revising Standing Orders, you will be revising the constitutional mandate granted by this Constitution. You cannot revise the Standing Orders that determine the procedures of a particular House and thereby purport to vary what the Constitution has enacted. Hon. Speaker, besides the many functions â and I want to thank the Leader of Majority Party because he has elucidated the functions and the powers of this House better than any lawyer in a court of law. Besides the many functions, including the fact that when the two Houses sit jointly, as indeed, happened when His Excellency the President addressed Parliament â hon. Speaker, you presided as Joint Speaker of that Joint Session."
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