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    "id": 729367,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/729367/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ethuro",
    "speaker_title": "The Speaker",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 158,
        "legal_name": "Ekwee David Ethuro",
        "slug": "ekwee-ethuro"
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    "content": " Order, Members, I think we have listened to everybody. Let me make the following observation. It is a sad day when responsible Senators can engage in a debate of this nature. It is a debate that is taken out of context, conjures up conspiracy theories that do not exist; a debate that attacks personalities and appears like we are gagging Members from speaking; either defending or attacking the Government. That is the job of parliamentarians. I have been in this House and always on the Government side. You can go to the HANSARD and find that I have always criticized even Presidential debates when I had the opportunity of the Floor but the manner in which you do it is what is contested. These Standing Orders are clear so that you do not reduce this – you have heard the expression – to a market place. There is a difference between debating in the Senate and debating in a public baraza. There must be decorum. Part 16 of the Rules of Debate provides that proceedings to be in Kiswahili, English or the Kenyan Sign Language (KSL) and Senators to address the Speaker; two or more Senators requesting to speak, the Senator called upon by the Speaker shall be the one entitled to speak and you do not demand; speeches may not be read; no Senator to speak after a question has been put. Regarding points of order, any Senator may raise a point of order at any time during the speech of another Senator. Anticipating debate is not allowed and proceedings of the Select Committee are not to be referred to. Standing Order No.90 gives you the content of speeches. Standing Order No.90 says that:- “(1) Neither the personal conduct of the President, nor the conduct of the Speaker or of any judge, nor the judicial conduct of any other person performing judicial functions, nor any conduct of the Head of State or Government or the representative in Kenya of any friendly country or the conduct of the holder of an office whose removal from such office is dependent upon a decision of the Senate shall be referred to adversely, except upon a specific substantive Motion of which at least three days’ notice has been given. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
}