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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "We want to request you to put it off. I want to plead with the Members to support what the Leader of the Majority Party has requested and what I am going to request. Members could not listen to us. The requirements of Chapter 6 of the Constitution allow us to come up with our own code of ethics. In the absence of that, I know that you have no window but to call Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission to send a code of ethics here because that is required of us by the Constitution. What Members did yesterday was not to listen maybe because of lack of information. It is a requirement of us to occasion properly Chapter 6. So, we want to give time to Members to reflect. Do we want to self-regulate or we want regulation imposed on us? Either way, one must happen. I listened to you very carefully. The day there was parliamentary breakfast when we engaged the media, you said as the head of this House that no draconian law that gags the media shall go through this House. I want to plead with you to live by your promise to the media. If there is anything that offends us, we need to engage the Departmental Committee on Energy, Communication and Information headed by Hon. Jamleck Kamau. It must not always be acrimony. Right now, we have many issues that are noisy. The interest rates are at 25 per cent. There are so many things which we can do for our nation that should occupy the media space to lead this country into the next generation. I plead with you to defer putting this Question to a later date. We shall consult with Hon. Jamleck’s Committee and under your chairmanship of the House Business Committee (HBC) so that we can see and save us noise. If this noise leaves here, tomorrow it will be on the doorsteps of the President. The country has too many problems. I thank you."
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