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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Muzee",
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kazungu Muzee",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. It looks like hon. Wanga is staying in tandem. I get the feeling that when I was talking to an hon. Member over there, she was actually eavesdropping. First of all, we are celebrating that we now have a digital Government. All the talk out there is about the analogue to digital migration. There has been another buzz about a paperless society. If you look around everywhere, you see paper. This is a waste of public resources. Parliament needs to lead from the front in terms of saving money through incurring unnecessary costs by way of printing and distributing papers all over the place. So, I support the idea of revising the Standing Orders because, first of all, the law we make should work for us. We make laws so that they can make it easier for us to serve Kenyans in our legislation work. Again, as I said, it is very important that we embrace technology because of obvious advantages. We are celebrating 50 years of independence. So, we need to ensure that, going forward, the rules and laws that we make are in tandem with where we are right now. Hon. Speaker, yesterday, we had a very interesting situation here, when hon. Ababu Namwamba took pictures as you made a ruling. There was uproar. Maybe, once we revise the Standing Orders, taking of pictures in the Chamber can be accommodated. One day, when I become a grandfather, I would want to share pictures of hon. Speaker reacting to something that happened in the National Assembly many years back. Such would be something of importance for me as I do my memoirs. So, it is important for us to look at the Standing Orders deeply and broadly to make things easy for us. Our rules and procedures should facilitate us to carry out duties. 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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