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    "content": "However, Article 115 of the Constitution gives a whole process of how to deal with the Memorandum. Therefore, when the Memoranda came, the National Assembly went ahead and applied exactly this Article and voted on the two Memoranda. Our Speaker then came with the ruling and said; Article 115 is subject to the Standing Orders that we have, and, in fact, ruled that the National Assembly action was an a nullity because they did not comply with the provisions of their Standing Orders which are a photocopy of our Standing Order No.158. Our Standing Orders provides for a Mediation Committee to look at both memoranda, but the Constitution does not go to the issue of Committees; it simply says; both Houses shall consider. How it should be done, is in the Standing Orders. The Committee was set up, we have already considered – we did a report and now the import of the Speaker’s ruling yesterday is to throw whatever else we did in terms of the report to the dustbin and go back to Article 115 again. This is the same Speaker who ruled earlier on that we must comply with the provisions of the Constitution. I do not understand; there is confusion. We spent many days as a Joint Committee of both Houses to look at these two amendments. Mr. Chairman, Sir, I would like to agree with our distinguished Members that in the interest of the future of this House and the authority of Parliament, we use this blue book. The Standing Orders is authority of this House. If we make Standing Orders and we do not comply with them, we ignore them, then, we are setting a precedence that will haunt this House tomorrow. So, I plead in the same way that this matter be stood over until we debate it, perhaps in a Kamukunji."
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