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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Keynan",
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        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, I stand to seek your guidance. Taking into account the Statement and the response by the Leader of Majority Party, I thought in a pure presidential system like ours--- I want to say with a lot of humility and respect to all my colleagues here. Under Standing Order 91 and on the issue of clarifications, each one of us is accountable to the accuracy of all statements that we make here. I thought when we went to Mombasa and we were taken through the intrigues, details and the modus Operandi under functions of pure presidential systems and what Parliament is supposed to do, I thought, that the Chair will be ruling so many hon. Members when they ask for clarifications, other than asking--- In the past, when we had hybrid system, the Ministers used to be here and they would say: “I beg to reply.” In the context of the presidential system, the work of the Leader of Majority Party or any Chair of a Committee is to say, “I beg to respond.” That is because your work is to read a response from the Government because you are not sure of the accuracy of the facts that you are about to share with hon. Members. So, I do not know whether the meetings that we have had, the symposium that we had in Mombasa was just a waste of time. I thought we went there to recollect and go through our own Standing Orders to ensure that they are in tandem with the new Constitution. The Chair will be guiding hon. Members that indeed, it is out of order to seek further clarifications from the Leader of Majority Party or any other hon. Member of this Parliament because their work is just to act as conveyor belt. That is to read the Statement from the Government, not to have a clarification. In whose capacity are you offering clarifications and some are not part of your Statement? I think, with a lot of respect, I want to ask my colleagues to desist and just wait. Let the Statement be laid on the Table and that Statement will show whether, really whoever is responding has adequately responded. If it is not enough, the same could be committed to a Committee for further interrogation. I seek the guidance of the Chair on this very issue so that we do not demean the institution of the National Assembly. We do appreciate that this is the first time we are trying to learn, but all of us have a right to be guided by the Chair on very important issues that are likely to form part of our traditions, history and precedent that is going to govern us and the future generation. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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