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    "content": "have taken all these Standing Orders. He was wrong. If the Member wanted to raise the issue of reporting progress, even as hon. Ng’ongo raises measures under Standing Order No. 167, again the Chairperson has the discretion to allow or not to allow. If you, indeed, want the Chairperson in committee to move to report progress, you must rise under Standing Order No. 134, you must begin there. You see, one wrong cannot hide the other. A Member stands under Standing Order No. 96 and the Chairperson was perfectly right to rule the Member out of order and proceed. Look at your own Standing Orders, see what 96 says, if you are in committee. If you wanted, you should have risen under Standing Order No. 134. You then proceed to move that the Chairperson reports progress under Standing Order No.167. In my view, I rule and I find that the Chairperson acted correctly and within the Standing Orders. Hon. Members, I think I want to take the liberty to address the issue of the code and dignity in the House. As I always keep saying, particularly my good friends, the ones that have served in the Tenth Parliament, and more particularly those who paid attention in the month of January when these Standing Orders were passed, they are the Standing Orders of the House. This House can still amend them. But until they are amended, they are your own Standing Orders. In order to address the point raised by hon. Shill, I want to read out to you the provisions of Standing Order No. 107, which deals with grossly disorderly conduct and to draw to the attention of the House that, the Speaker and the Chairpersons of committees will implement these Standing Orders moving forward. “Conduct is greatly disorderly if the Member concerned; (a) creates actual disorder; (b) knowingly raises a false point of order; (c) uses or threatens violence against a Member or other person; (d) persists in making serious allegations without, in Speakers opinion, adequate substantiation.” This is subjective, you therefore have to live with the Judiciary’s quote, that “justice is as long as the judge’s foot”. I want hon. Onyonka, if he is in the Chamber, to listen to this, because the judge’s foot, sometimes may refer to temperament. (e) otherwise, abuses his or her privileges; (f) deliberately gives false information to the House;"
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