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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "today, something came up where hon. Joyce Laboso said she was going to give a substantive ruling on it. Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, when you sit in the Speaker’s Panel, the position you hold is equal to that of a Judge of the High Court. Therefore, issues or elements like standards must apply. You cannot give a ruling on a situation today, the next time the Deputy Speaker gives a different ruling, and the next time the substantive Speaker gives a different ruling. If you gave us more consistent rulings, we will not bother you all the time, raising issues when we know the correct procedure. So, I am appealing to the Speaker’s Panel to sit down and give us the correct procedure because the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs was suggesting that it is only the Speakers who, on their own volition, can declare a Bill unconstitutional. During the last Parliament, there were many rulings which said that at any point, an hon. Member can raise the issue of unconstitutionality and the Speaker will stop at that point and make a ruling as to whether it is unconstitutional or not. So, please, guide us on that matter."
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