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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "If the media are present, like I am sure they are even now, and they see us either collapsing, smiling or dozing, they are at liberty to report that. We cannot gag the media from making those remarks. Remember, they inform and entertain and occasionally educate. We cannot gag the media by saying that we are in a committee. They are at liberty to say how they saw Hon. Gumbo make his point, how he strained to make the point and how he made Hon. Duale sweat. That is their business. The Committee, on the other hand, will table their reports. They may include the sweating or not sweating, but if they do, it is on their own volition and not because the media had already reported that there was some sweating, blinking, winking or whispering. I just want to make this point very clear: Let us observe our rules. Let the media go and report whatever it is that they heard in the Committees, but let us wait until the reports are tabled. That is because you need to adopt the Report as Committee Members so that when you bring it here, it is the report of the Committee. Even if you also want to say that you saw somebody smiling at the witness, you are at liberty to say so. However, do not move from the Committee and appear in some television show and explain that even if you saw it this way, this is not what was intended. Do not go to do that because it will be in breach of our own Standing Orders. The media are at liberty to say whatever they wish about what they saw, provided that they report factually. That is the only requirement. When they are not factual, you the members of the various Committees are at liberty to raise the issue even here on the Floor of the plenary or in the Committee and seek that the particular media house reports correctly or corrects whatever was not factual. That is within the norms of democratic governance. Therefore, the point raised by Hon. Midiwo is a valid one; that we will not entertain that and if it happens, we will deal with it in accordance with the law as we know how. Thank you very much. Hon. Keter."
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