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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kembi-Gitura",
    "speaker_title": "The Deputy Speaker",
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        "legal_name": "James Kembi Gitura",
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    "content": " You are raising pertinent issues and we should discuss them openly and dispassionately. Unless you are saying that nobody in the Public Gallery should be recognised. That would be wrong because when pupils and students come they go to the Public Gallery, partly because they cannot fit in the Speaker’s Gallery. Sometimes it is more than one school which visits us. So, they cannot fit there. They come to learn, we recognise, appreciate and encourage them to learn and go back to their schools and do well. That is the outstanding tradition of this Senate. However, as I said last week, it is not obligatory to recognise people in the Public Gallery because many times, we do not even know that they are there. Therefore, if you go to the Public Gallery and want to be recognised, we have to know that you are there because you cannot see the Public Gallery from where I am sitting. However, to be on the Speaker’s Gallery, you have also to be dressed formally in the same dress code that also pertains to the Chamber. If you are not dressed formally, you cannot be allowed to go there. That is why I said if you had approached the Deputy Speaker, you would have learnt what is going on without anticipating the situation. Again, it must be a learning curve for the staffers from Turkana County who are sitting in the Public Gallery because they know they cannot sit in the Speaker’s Gallery for the reasons that have been explained to them. That is the position."
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