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    "content": "The Standing Order No.178 being quoted by the distinguished Senator for Tharaka-Nithi must be read from No.177 on Nomination of Members of Select Committees. The CPAIC is not a Select Committee. It is a Sessional Committee. If one wants to deal with the issue of CPAIC, one does not look for the details under Select committees because it is not a select committee. The distinguished colleague Senators Murkomen and Prof. Kindiki, who are lawyers know the Latin maxim in law that; expression nunius est exclusion alterius – to specify one is to exclude the other. In dealing with sessional committees like this, then one finds it under Standing Order No.212(1) which I will read in extenso ; “There shall be a Sessional Committee to be known as the County Public Accounts and Investments Committee.” It is not a Select Committee. 212(2) “The County Public Accounts and Investments Committee shall consist of a Chairperson, who shall be a member of the second largest party or coalition of parties in the Senate, and not more than eleven other Senators.” These Standing Orders were not crafted for this House by the previous Parliament. This particular Standing Order was crafted by a committee chaired by the distinguished Senator for Meru, Sen. Kiraitu, co-chaired by Sen. Orengo and several Members. It was then brought to the RBC, we brought it to this House and unanimously adopted as our Standing Order. It reads that the committee shall consist of a chairperson, distinct. Specifying chairperson excludes Members."
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