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    "content": "Yeah. It is because you, as a House, passed that report. If you can trace your memory back, the amendment which was withdrawn which was proposed to be moved by Hon. Mwadeghu had the effect of deleting three or four of the recommendations. Just look at those recommendations so that you debate from a position of knowledge. It is not my business to debate. It is your business to debate those recommendations. As it is, the proposed amendment was withdrawn and, that is the information I have. Therefore, the report was passed without amendments, just like it had been passed in the Senate. If, on the other hand, anything that comes from the administrative processes that presiding officers are undertaking is, in the opinion of both myself and the Speaker of the Senate, unconstitutional or irregular, allow us to apply ourselves to those recommendations in the face of the Regulations – not the Treaty or the Regulations dealing with election of Members to the EALA. So, if anything coming through the administrative exercise that is being done by the two presiding officers is un-procedural, then we will obviously communicate that to this House and the House will be at liberty to take whatever decision it proposes to take thereafter. But, before they have come to us, remember you adopted that report on Wednesday afternoon. The next day was Thursday 1st June 2017 which was not a sitting day. The presiding officers had to do whatever they thought was necessary administratively, but they will report. It is not the presiding officers who will see the report first. It is the joint committee which will first receive their report, then they will bring whatever report they have and we will make of what you choose. There is no matter of co-principals in this one. This language is becoming very fashionable that the Member for Endebess is suggesting that there could be some principals. There is none. Let us just wait for the two Clerks to finish the administrative exercise that they are doing and they will report to the joint committee which I am informed is scheduled to meet on Friday this week. It is after they have met and deliberated on what it is that they will have received from the presiding officers, that then we can make a decision either to deal with the matter or not. But if you recall, in that report, there was a deadline of 4th June 2017 which was indicated there. What the Leader of the Majority Party is saying about the deadlines is true. The joint committee will need to address that issue. I cannot do it now because taking action at this point will be premature. The best thing will be to wait for the joint committee to bring us a report and I am sure the House will be able to express itself. I can see the Member for Ugunja is 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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