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    "content": "about to vote, his deputy, Sen. Keter, stood and categorically told the House that Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki had left for The Hague. Standing Order No.94 (1) states that:- “A Senator shall be responsible for the accuracy of any facts that the Senator alleges to be true and may be required to substantiate any such facts instantly” Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki has been here and is in the lobby room; he has not gone to The Hague. Why would a Senator, who is a leader, stand up and consciously and knowingly mislead the House? The Chair should call upon the Senator to substantiate the accuracy of the fact that he gave to the House. More importantly, we want to urge the House to take seriously--- I have just intervened with a Senator who was walking away. I asked him where he was going when we are about to vote. He said: “There is no quorum in the House”. It is the Senators who make quorum. This issue requires a kamukunji so that we can speak to each other in a more candid language and manner. This will enable us drive the business of the House. Lastly, I want to bring to the attention of the Chair something that needs to be corrected. On Tuesday, when the distinguished Senator for Migori was in the Chair, we voted electronically on Order No.8 on the President’s Memorandum and the vote went the way it was announced after the electronic count. We went then into the next stage where there was need to report. My argument was that, the phraseology that the Chair was using was incorrect because we had done with the matter. So, there was no talk of reporting progress, but reporting to the plenary. I am hearing subtle arguments that are self-serving to the effect that, subsequently, Sen. (Dr.) Machage stood up to disown the vote. He vitiated the entire vote. We want the Chair to make it clear to the House because the electronic vote had been done and concluded. The vote that Sen. (Dr.) Machage is trying to disown and, in fact, announced that he had disowned it, was the vote that he announced the opposite of the outcome of. That was the voice vote that we report the progress to the House. So, the vitiated vote can only be the one in relation to the voice vote on whether we are to report progress or not. On the actual vote that we did electronically, it is done, locked, stocked and barreled and cannot be vitiated even by the Chair of the day. We want this to be made clear because the maneuvers I am seeing and feeling by known conspirators are that they want to argue that Sen. (Dr.) Machage’s statement vitiated the proceedings. It cannot be because the HANSARD is there to bear us witness."
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