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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nuh",
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        "legal_name": "Junet Sheikh Nuh",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. I stand under Standing Order No.29 (1), which says that:- “Whenever during a session the House stands adjourned, whether or not a day has been appointed for the next meeting, the Speaker may, on the request of the Leader of the Majority Party or the Leader of the Minority Party, appoint a day for a special sitting of the House.” Hon. Speaker, I am reading this together with Standing Order No. 29 (2), which says in:- “The Speaker may allow a request under paragraph (1) if the Speaker is satisfied that the business proposed to be transacted relates to the matters specified under Standing Order No.61(Special Motions) or other urgent and exceptional business as the Speaker might allow.” Hon. Speaker, I am raising this point of order in regard to the business we are engaging in, in the next Order, which is Order No.8. I believe this request was made by the Leader of Majority Party to you. If we interrogate this Standing Order, I do not believe that business is exceptional, urgent or special. This Parliament has passed many laws. Since we came to Parliament, we have passed almost 100 Bills. This is just any other Bill and there is nothing special about it that requires a Special Sitting. The Sitting we are going to have in the afternoon has most special issues of passing Maj-Gen. Nkaissery as our Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Government. That falls under urgent and special matter. But for this one, I do not see the urgency. I do not see the importance or exceptional business that it has."
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