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    "id": 411465,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 184,
        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, Sir, there is one other thing which you need to address and make a ruling on. The Constitution which we have today, when we chose to go for a pure presidential system, there should be no sessions. It used to be at the beginning of a new session, we would invite His Excellency the President to come and address the nation and open a session. Even our consistent use of the words ‘end of session” when we break for Christmas, I do not think it is in line with the intentions of the Constitution. It is not and we need to address all these issues. When the new Constitution was promulgated, we were on the Second Session and we ended the last Parliament with that session. How then do we come in Parliament and begin this thing of session while we did not have them in the last Parliament after the new Constitution commenced? It is important and it is put in these Standing Orders. The Standing Orders which were hidden from us are now telling us that we need to have sessions. The Standing Orders were supposed to be in line with the new Constitution. Something is wrong. I want to plead with you, hon. Cheboi and T.J. Kajwang’ that form a team. If you have difficulties, consult some people who have memory and he is there. He has the memory. Some Members like John Mbadi have memory so that we can do rules that can make us debate and can make our life easy. You cannot be a judge who sits on your chair and you declare yourself jailed. That is what we seem to have done with these Standing Orders. I want to plead that we do the right thing. The sections that are bad, you can even do them in one amendment so that our deliberations are smooth. As it were, these Standing Orders were done with some selfish motive and we cannot accept it. I beg to support and ask the team to move us forward."
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