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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Baiya",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Njoroge Baiya",
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    "content": "On a point of order, hon. Speaker. I am rising on a point of order to raise concern about compliance of this Motion with the Standing Orders. The amendment says that the Motion be amended by deleting recommendations 1,2 and 3 on page 55 of the Report. To that extent, that part violets Standing Order No. 56(2), which is clearly to the effect that no amendment shall be permitted if, in the opinion of the Speaker, it represents a direct negation of the question proposed. The proposal to delete a resolution proposed by the Report is seeking to negate it. The logic of this Standing Order is to ensure that you can actually vote against resolution and achieve what this Motion wants us to achieve. The second aspect is that the proposal to substitute another recommendation offends Standing Order No. 56(1), which is to the effect that an amendment should be relevant to the Motion. Every amendment shall be relevant to the Motion it seeks to amend, and shall not raise any question which, in the opinion of the Speaker, should be raised by a substantive Motion after notice is given. Clearly, this is a Report by the Committee, dealing with a Petition which touches on commissioners. This amendment seeks to direct the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission to undertake another investigation. It does not require any stretch of imagination to see that this amendment is a distraction; it is an attempt to divert the House from dealing with the business before it; it is clearly a violation of the Standing Orders. I would urge that the amendment itself be ruled out of order."
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