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    "id": 615526,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kajwang’",
    "speaker_title": "The Temporary Deputy Speaker",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2712,
        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
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    "content": "a discretion placed on the Speaker to look at the particular dress of a Member and decide whether the Member is properly dressed or not. This issue has been covered before in various Parliaments. I have in mind, for example, a decision by Speaker Hon. ole Kaparo as he then was. He was discussing the issue of whether Hon. Shikuku, at that time the MP for Butere, was properly dressed. He discussed the question: What is the meaning of properly dressed? I have noted that in his summary he did not express himself on the question of shoes. At that time the question was whether Hon. Shikuku, who was dressed in a Kaunda Suit, was properly dressed. However, coming closer is the ruling by Hon. Marende when he was discussing whether the Member for Kisumu Town West, Hon. Olago, was properly dressed. Hon. Olago came into the Chamber in court regalia that is used by lawyers. The question was whether that court room regalia constituted a code of dress that was acceptable in the Chamber. On Page 5 of that ruling, the Speaker at that time expressed himself in the following way: “Closer home in Uganda, the rule provides that all Members shall dress in a decent and dignified manner, a pair of trousers with a jacket, shirt, tie, kanzu or a jacket or safari suit for male Members.” He went ahead to say that the rules also provide that any Member intending to dress otherwise does so without the permission of the Speaker. He went on to say, “This is to provide for situations when circumstances such as medical requirements or one’s faith may dictate his or her manner of dressing.” I find a lot of relevance in the decision by Hon. Marende that medical requirements or faith of a Member may dictate his or her manner of dressing. It is for this reason that the Speaker has allowed Members to dress in various clothes, including caps which express a Member’s faith and also medical circumstances. You know that the Speaker has allowed the Member for Kamkunji to be in the Chamber because of his medical requirements. I, therefore, rule that the Member for Samburu North, in so far as he was dressed in sandals because of medical circumstances was properly dressed in the Chamber. If, of course, he was dressed in open sandals without any lawful excuse, I would have ruled him improperly dressed immediately."
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