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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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    "content": "media yesterday. That journalist was reading the old Standing Orders which say that the Committee should have 29 Members. I texted him and told him that he is behind. The new Standing Orders are written “Third Edition”. You might find first and second editions within Parliament but the current Standing Orders are the third edition. How you behave is all in the Standing Orders. I am sure most of you who are new watched the time when people came with whistles in the Chamber. The new Standing Orders are very important because you can be sent away from the Chamber for a whole year. My good friend, Hon. Wandayi, is a living example. We had to help him. He was sent away for a whole year. Some of us in the leadership realised that our brother cannot be in the cold for one year. So, we had to bring a report with Hon. Jakoyo who is at home. We begged the Speaker, wrote a report and brought back Hon. Wandayi after serving in the cold for four months. If you misbehave, you will be in that shoe. If you do not know the limits, this is the Committee that will deal with you. It is chaired by the Speaker and it is above reproach. You should not listen to Hon. Duale or Hon. Mbadi as your leader or those leaders who are outside there, and you forget yourself and misbehave here. When you misbehave here, you will carry your cross. Neither Hon. Duale nor your leadership outside the House will carry that cross with you. It is good that we live in a very respectable leadership style. I am sure the Procedure and House Rules Committee deals with that. Why are we forming this Committee? It is very important and we want to indulge you. If the House approves the Motion, we want you to call the first meeting tomorrow in the morning because there is something we want this Committee to do for us, as the leadership, in terms of the composition of the Members to various committees. We looked at the numbers and realised that we have some gaps. That is why these Members, under your leadership, will receive our concerns through our Whips where we want the Standing Orders to be amended, so that each and every Member of our House can be in two committees, one in a departmental committee and another in a select committee comfortably. That is why we want to form this Committee today. I hope the Speaker will convene the meeting tomorrow in the morning and then we deal with the report of that Committee on Thursday in the afternoon. If the House agrees with this Motion, we ask you, despite your busy commitments, to convene a meeting tomorrow in the morning. This will allow the House to deliberate and approve the amendments to the Standing Orders possibly by Thursday this week. The approval by the House will enable the Committee on Selection to make informed decisions when they meet on Friday to appoint Members to various committees. This is a very important Committee. In my life as a Member of Parliament serving the third term, this is the Committee that I cherish that I will never appear before because it deals with conduct and integrity of Members. If there is a Committee you should avoid as a Member of Parliament, it should be this one. How you behave within the precincts of Parliament--- People think that the precincts of Parliament is the Chamber. It is not. That is the first question you should ask the Serjeant-at-Arms. What are the boundaries and precincts of Parliament? It also includes our offices and the car park. I am sure a number of us are also licensed gun holders. How you use your gun and how you behave when you have two or three bottles of beer in the bar matters. This is for those of you who stay late in the bar in Parliament. How do your visitors behave when they are at the precincts of Parliament? How is your relationship between you and the staff of Parliament? There must be serious personal space. This Committee which is chaired by the Speaker should be the last one you should cherish to appear. We brought these men and women so that they can help us amend the Standing orders and work on it. I am sure they are up 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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