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    "id": 638852,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chepkong’a",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Kiprono Chepkonga",
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    "content": "The Standing Orders were to be made for the orderly conduct of meetings; not for discipline of Members. If there is a Standing Order that is inconsistent with the Constitution, it must be dealt with. Removing a Member from a committee as disciplinary action by a party does not fall within Article 124 of the Constitution. Such action is not for the orderly conduct of the proceedings of the Committee. Standing Order Nos. 19 and 176 are inconsistent with the Constitution. Another thing is that, under Article 95 of the Constitution, every Member of Parliament is elected to represent a people. It is inconsistent with the Constitution when someone is removed from a committee. If you do so, you remove those people from the Committee. As Hon. Chepkong’a, I am nothing. I was elected by the electorates of Ainabkoi Constituency to represent them in this House. They are Kenyans. You cannot remove them from committees. It is like you have barred the entire Lungalunga Constituency from participating in the business of this House. It is inconceivable that it was the intention of Kenyans – in providing for making of Standing Orders by this House – that the people of Lungalunga Constituency should be disciplined because of errors made by their Member of Parliament. That cannot be true. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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