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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I was rising on a point of order in regard to the guidance you have given the hon. Senator from Nyeri and I was looking at this particular Standing Order when a request of Statement is made. The Standing Order indicates that the request is made seeking a Statement from a Committee Chairperson, it is not a Statement from the executive. What I was wondering is that, is it in order for a Committee through the Chair to bring a Statement in which it will relay to the House the position given to the Committee from the executive if necessary and also make its own opinion on that Statement because when it comes to just being conveyors of information from the executive, it makes the Senate also lose its decorum and authority. Is it in order? I think this is important because if indeed it is a Statement from the Chair of a particular Committee, if the executive is not willing to give that Committee the appropriate information, the Committee can get other information. It is in order to also to say that the Government has failed to give its own side of the story and to suggest appropriate action to be taken. The Statement is really from the Committee and not necessarily from the executive. So, I stand guided by the Chair on that particular Standing Order because we have been operating on the basis that the Statement is a Statement from the executive. My reading of that Standing Order is that it is not necessarily so."
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