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    "id": 380556,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kembi-Gitura",
    "speaker_title": "The Deputy Speaker",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 242,
        "legal_name": "James Kembi Gitura",
        "slug": "kembi-gitura"
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    "content": " Thank you, Members. It is really up to you but I will say this again: I have made a ruling like this in the past, that we ring the bell and go to division and vote because I realized that the moment you come, when you stall tolling Motions for vote and if you want to ring the bell for each vote and you have, say, four votes in a day, particularly when we are in the Committee of the Whole like we are going to be tomorrow on the Allocation of Revenue Bill--- if you are going to go out and ring the bell on each single amendment --- this is a short Bill but we are going to have a Bill like the Marriage Bill which goes up to 100 clauses and if you have to ring the bell for division on each and every clause, then you will be here voting for a week. That is why we wanted to be practical about it. These are rules which are made for us and not us for the rules. The rules are meant to be obeyed and the purpose of that rule is to make sure that there is a division. If you look at the HANSARD, I indicated at the commencement, that we have two votes to do this afternoon. There is going to be a vote on the second reading which we have just finished and another vote on the Motion by Sen. Lesuuda. If it is the mood of the House that we open the doors and ring the bell again, I have no issue with that, we will do it, but I want you to be practical about this because it is going to happen very soon and you are the ones who will be asking the Chair to have the bell rang once instead ringing it at each and every amendment when we are in the Committee of the Whole because that is what you are going to have to do. As far as I am concerned this afternoon, I do not see that there will be any prejudice caused by us going to vote, but since Members seem to feel that it might not be the right thing, I order that the doors be opened, we read out the next Order, then we proceed to division once again. It is so ordered."
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