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    "id": 476829,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ochieng",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, I am one of the five Members who had prepared the minority report pursuant to Standing Order No.199(5) which states: “A report having been adopted by a majority of members, a minority or dissenting report may be appended to the report by any member(s) of the Committee.” Standing Order No.199 (6) states: “A report of a select committee including any minority report, together with the minutes of the proceedings of the committee, and with such note or record of any evidence by the committee as the committee may deem fit, shall be laid on the Table of the House by the chairperson of the select committee or the vice-chairperson or by a member authorised by the committee on its behalf within fourteen days of the conclusion of its proceedings.” Hon. Deputy Speaker, the reason I stood up is because the minority report was not appended to the main report. They went ahead to do something that is not contained in the law by purporting to include something they are calling a report on minority views. So, hon. Deputy Speaker, I want to seek your indulgence and guidance on this. The new Standing Orders state that minority or dissenting views should be appended to the report and this is what happens in the Commonwealth. I seek your guidance on whether this report is properly prepared given that five Members of that committee prepared and duly delivered a minority report that they wanted to be appended to the main report? Instead, something now being called minority views is presented to this House. May I get your guidance on that, hon. Deputy Speaker?"
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