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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Katoo",
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        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, it is very important that Members listen to this because this Committee is established, as I have said, in accordance with the National Assembly Powers and Privileges Act, Cap.6 and I just want to bring to the attention of the Members one section here and it is Clause 10(1). It is on Committee on Privileges which says:- “There shall be established a committee to be known as the Committee of Privileges consisting of the Speaker and ten other Members of the Assembly under the chairmanship of the Speaker.” Hon. Speaker, if Members also see Standing Order No.191, it says: “Committees shall enjoy and exercise all the powers and privileges bestowed on Parliament by the Constitution and statute, including the power to summon witnesses, receive evidence and to request for and receive papers and documents from the Government and the public.” Hon. Speaker, the reason why I am bringing the attention of Members to that is in order to explain some of the functions of this Committee and they are as follows: It is this Committee through the Act that decides the privileges of Members, the privileges of the witnesses, a matter of removal of a Member for failure to attend eight sittings in a session without the permission of the Speaker as required under Article 103 of the Constitution and Standing Order No.258 of our own Standing Orders."
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