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    "content": "Proceeding with the business of the Committee on County Public Accounts and Investments without ensuring the observance of Standing Order No.212(2) would open the proceedings of the committee to questions as to the validity of the composition of the committee. Possibly so, it would lead to questions on the status of any business transacted by the committee in that period. It is, therefore, imperative that a chairperson of the committee be elected in accordance to Standing Order No.212(2) before further proceedings of the committee. Although under Standing Order No.192 of the Standing Orders, the vice chairperson may act in the absence of the chairperson, a vacancy is not an absence within the meaning of that Standing Order. Consequently, it is not open to a committee, particularly one such as this that requires a chairperson to be from the minority party to proceed with business during a period of vacancy in the office of the chairperson. It is, however, imperative to underline that contrary to the position implied by Sen. Wamatangi in his request for direction that the removal of a chairperson renders a committee dysfunctional, the position is that such removal has no effect on the validity of the committee except for the requirement that the committee first elects a chairperson before proceeding with its next business. I note by the correspondence dated 1st March, 2016, and addressed to members of the Sessional Committee on County Public Accounts and Investments, the Clerk of the Senate has, pursuant to Standing Order No.183(2) appointed Thursday 10th March, 2016 as the date on which the election of the chairperson of the Sessional Committee on County Public Accounts and Investments shall be held. I thank you,"
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