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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, Sir. I want to thank all Members that have spoken to the issues around the subject of amendment of the Standing Orders. I want to announce on behalf of the Rules Committee that we are engaging in an elaborate discussion of the entire Standing Orders to be able to bring one global and consolidated amendments so that we can have a new set of reprinted version of the Standing Orders that will enable Members to participate effectively. As a matter of fact, we even want to translate the Standing Orders into Kiswahili so that they can be received both in Swahili and English which are the national languages of this country. We are even thinking of proposing that a day will be dedicated when all Members will speak in Kiswahili in this House. I hope that, that is not going to stifle debates especially from the friends from the place where I come from where Kiswahili was taught in mother tongue so that macho can mean something. However, hon. Speaker, Sir, I also want to announce that the Speaker has taken leadership in this and is actually going to call an informal meeting before Christmas where we are going to improve on a lot of issues and we are going to first of all target Members of Parliament who are the primary users of the Standing Orders to generate as many of those areas as possible that we need to refresh. Thereafter, we will draw consensus that we will take to a workshop sometime in January. Our target is that when we open in February or so we should have a document which is now our own, that is of this Parliament and not of the Tenth Parliament and, therefore, Members will find it more useful and friendlier. 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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