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    "id": 523232,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "I wish to thank the Leader of the Majority Party for laying on the Table the programme for next week. I am also glad that he has alluded to some of the pending reports, particularly those of the PIC. I am also aware that some of the reports of the PIC, which are pending include the one on the sale of Government shares in Telkom Kenya, which was presented here a while back and the pending Bill by Essar when they made an exit from KPRL. It would be nice if we could have them cleared because some of these reports have really been here for quite a while. I have looked at our Standing Orders and probably the lacuna happens to be due to the fact that, while the Standing Orders stipulate the time within which a report is to be presented and debated, they tend to be silent on how long it should take to be debated once one is tabled; but I think we can overcome that through goodwill. More fundamentally, last week we discussed the programme of events for this particular Session. If you recall, sometime back, the Supreme Court gave a ruling for the Houses of Parliament to give effect to the two-third gender rule. This House is required, under Article 81(d) of the Constitution, to give effect to that Article within this Session. The deadline is 2015 and I would be happy if the House Business Committee pronounced itself on this matter, because it is clearly on record that we are required to look into it within this year. Thank you, hon. Speaker. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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