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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "I have no doubt that the matters contained in the question raised by Hon. Opiyo Wandayi may have been of concern to the people of Ugunja Constituency. You will all agree with me that during the First and Second sessions of this Parliament we had quite some challenges settling on a pragmatic procedure for actualising these two provisions of our Constitution. The result is the ingenuity that is now practised every Tuesday where Members’ Questions are answered by Cabinet Secretaries appearing before respective Committees of this House. It behoves upon all of us, irrespective of our political parties, to uphold and jealously safeguard this nascent procedure as opposed to making a mockery of it! When Members get involved in an exchange of words and shouting matches before witnesses, and in the full glare of the public and the media, it is the institution of Parliament that earns the embarrassment resulting therefrom. I, therefore, agree with your colleague, who, in that particular debate, alluded that even in instances where political expediency requires individual Members to take certain positions, deliberative skills and ingenuity are crucial to avoid creating the impression that you have abdicated the duties that you individually swore to discharge as Members of Parliament. I, therefore, rule that there is nothing to revisit in that matter. I thank you."
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