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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "fully committed to ensuring that the agreement that they had made with the Media Council was honoured. Therefore, as I conclude, I ask you to also make a pronouncement. This is not something new. All of us know that we should behave with decorum. We all know that the dignity of this House is our individual dignities as well. So, even as we do so, the presiding over business of the House, especially yesterday’s Committee of the whole House, in my view, failed the test of competence. That is why some of us found it difficult to behave with decorum. The presiding Chair failed to behave with decorum. Therefore, we were left with no alternative. It may look offensive but also consider our position. What would we have done, under the circumstances? Hon. Speaker, therefore, as you make your ruling, I think the Speaker’s Panel also needs to convene a meeting to listen to us. Some of us raise points of order but we are not allowed to execute it yet they could help. Whatever decision we make, especially from the Chair by the presiding officer, sets a precedent. That precedent is what we wanted to set right but we were denied that opportunity. So, as we are condemned from that side, we also condemn those who are siding with the Chair, who, in my view, seemed not to have followed our Standing Orders. Standing Order No.167 is very clear. You can ask for progress to be reported. What the Chair needs to do is put the Question to a vote, so that we can vote on it. We were not given that opportunity. How else would we have behaved? Many of us have really tried to behave with decorum in this House. Yesterday was a reflection of the fact that we were pushed to the wall. Thank you, hon. Speaker."
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