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    "id": 756911,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Kithure Kindiki",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like your indulgence to move a short Procedural Motion which is not part of today’s Order Paper but for housekeeping purposes. I am rising on Standing Order No. 15 and 17 and Article 107 of the Constitution. If you allow me, I will read out Article 107(1) (c) of the Constitution which provides that: “In the absence of the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker, another Member of the House elected by the House presides.” Similarly, Standing Order No. 15 provides that the Speaker shall preside at any sitting of the Senate but in the absence of the Speaker, the Deputy Speaker shall preside and in the absence of the Deputy Speaker, pursuant to Article107(1) (c) of the Constitution, another Senator elected by the Senate for that purpose shall preside. Standing Order No. 17 provides that: “There shall be panel to be known as the Speaker’s Panel which shall comprise four Senators to be known respectively as the First, Second, Third and Fourth Panellist, who shall be entitled to exercise all the powers vested in the Chairperson of Committees of the Whole.” The upshot of this Procedural Motion is to allow this House to identify at least two Senators who can help in the interim period with the running of the affairs of the House. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is because we are still waiting for the political parties represented in this House to nominate Members of the Speaker’s Panel and, in"
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