{"id":715199,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/715199/?format=json","text_counter":454,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Kajwang’","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":2712,"legal_name":"Tom Joseph Kajwang'","slug":"kajwang-tom-joseph-francis"},"content":"Hon. Speaker, you have just made a ruling in which you anxiously heard us both on law and facts. You have made a decision. The only thing which is commendable is that you have returned us to sanity as a House of procedure. You swore to protect the Constitution. You have not only protected the Constitution but the Standing Orders of this House. When the Chair of a Committee, in which I am a ranking Member, rises on a Motion which is before the House and a matter which is not his as Cheptumo, but as the Chair of the Committee, without reference to the Committee--- I rise on a point of order to ask your intervention on whether it is in order for a Chair of a Committee, in this current dispensation in which Committees are the bulwark of the business that we do, on his own volition, to have the discretion to come to the Floor of the House and purport to withdraw business which has been transacted and for which a report has been put before the House. I request a ruling on whether that is procedural. We had precedent before and it created issues. I remember at one point when I was serving in the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs--- I respect my Chair. The fact is and the records will show that the Chair rose to drop amendments which were in the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) Report and for that reason it has never been prosecuted up to now."}