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    "id": 541809,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Waiganjo",
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        "legal_name": "John Muriithi Waiganjo",
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    "content": "information which, in the wisdom of the Speaker, is unpalatable, ignominious, archaic or it is not good enough. My question, therefore, is: How does this then affect the understanding that HANSARD reports are substantially verbatim and serve as a repository of parliamentary proceedings? In those Standing Orders that I read, I do not see any expunging of any information from the record. Hon. Speaker, so the Question for determination - as you retreat – is: To what extent therefore, can a HANSARD report be tweaked? Two, is expunging information from the record or from the report of the HANSARD not an affront to the proceedings of the House or is it not? Three, what privileges and immunities in law does the HANSARD report enjoy? Four, in whose interest does the Speaker direct the information to be expunged from the HANSARD report? Five, where does the Speaker derive the authority to determine that part of the proceedings stand expunged from the records now that it is not provided for in the Standing Orders? Six, what does the Speaker intend to accomplish by directing expunging information from the HANSARD? As the Speaker retreats to make a finding on the points I have listed, I wish to make a submission that expunging information from the HANSARD is an affront to the culture of openness which ought to be entrenched by subjecting parliamentary proceedings to public scrutiny. Therefore, expunging such information from the HANSARD, if at all it ought to happen, it ought to be with the leave of the House and not the Speaker’s prerogative. As in the absence of an express provision of the Standing Orders, then the Speaker would be tempted to invoke Standing order No.1 which is obviously exposed to abuse. My submission is that we should take the proceedings of the House very much so like we take the proceedings of the court and preserve the records of the House. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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