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    "id": 772192,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "develop this kind of practice, chances are that we will be setting aside the entire Standing Orders of this House. This is because the Standing Orders were created for a purpose. If the House is on recess and you receive a message from any office, either you wait for us to come back or if it is urgent, the Leader of the Majority Party and the Leader of the Minority Party in consultation can request you to convene this House to come and specifically deal with that matter. So, the excuse that we are on recess and hence we should not come back just to listen to the Speaker reading a message, to me is demeaning the importance of this particular Standing Order. Secondly, we should not be making decisions in anticipation of what is likely to happen. There are so many things that are likely to happen and we will not sit in this House trying to anticipate and project that someone somewhere will sit and communicate to this House when that communication has not even come. So, this legislating in anticipation to me again is violating the procedures of this House. Finally and fundamentally, this Motion is presupposing and anticipating that there will be some appointments by the President to come to the House. However, I want to be very clear. Leader of the Majority Party, I have not even said what I wanted to say. However, the point is that there is no President in this country to make appointments and I think that needs to really sink very clearly."
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