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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gikaria",
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        "legal_name": "David Gikaria",
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    "content": "On a point of order. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I am seeking your guidance and maybe a directive. I sit in the Committee on Implementation as a Vice-Chair. Recently, we looked into the resolutions, petitions and the Executive undertakings. We agreed that the issue which was brought by the President in his State of the Nation Address regarding corruption and the people who were named--- He gave a directive on 60 days. We had sought to summon the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) officials and the Director of the Public Prosecutions (DPP) to indicate that the Executive directive period is over. There are people who are innocent and others are guilty and when we sought, through the Clerk, to be given some guidance whether we should summon them we were told we could not do that. If you look at Standing Order No. 209(2) it says that the Committee shall scrutinise the resolutions of the House (including adopted committee reports), petitions and the undertakings given by the national Executive, and examine--- It goes on from (a) to (c). Hon. Deputy Speaker, we were seeking your guidance as a Committee because when we sought to have the officials come to the Committee, we were told by the office of the Clerk that we could not do that. So, we seek your guidance regarding that directive. The 60 days in the President’s directive are over. If you look at today’s newspapers, it is said that the EACC is way ahead and it does not know when it will finish this investigation. Does it mean that innocent persons will have to stay away from their offices for as long as the investigations are still being undertaken? And, again if they are guilty, we need to be told the right position, or whether they are supposed to be taken to court and so on. We need to have clarity on the issue. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker."
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