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    "id": 511523,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Prof.) Nyikal",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. I rise under Standing Order, No. 127(5) regarding committee reports before debates on Bills. We have just laid on the Table two committee reports that relate to what we are going to discuss under Order No. 8 on the Order Paper. This is an extremely important Bill. It is an important matter for the country; I have raised this matter severally. Members should get the reports on time, but now the report has just been laid on the Table. We have not had time to look at them. We are being told to go and get them from wherever they are. Is it in order that we proceed with this discussion when we have not had the opportunity to look at what the committees have said? We are expected to see the reports and discuss the Bill at same time. On this Order, it is my proposal that we suspend debate on Order No. 8 until, probably, in the afternoon or later when we have had time to review and to read the reports. It is for the sake of this country that every one of us must make a very clear decision on the laws that we are passing. You can only make a clear decision if you have had the Report and gone through it. I know there are many people who put information in the reports. I beg that you give us time. Give the people of this country time. Give the elected Members, the representatives of the people, the time to peruse these two reports. I am saying this for the good of this country. We cannot do it like this, hon. Speaker."
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