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    "content": "Hon. Junet, please leave those terminologies which are going to cause unnecessary excitement. I said some of those phrases may excite everybody out there on the streets, but here let us remain faithful to the business that is at hand. Hon. Members, let me make this clarification that, it is within the Speaker’s authority and power to determine what disorderly conduct and grossly disorderly conduct is. If you look at Standing Order No.107, it graduates into Standing Order No.107 (a) and the Members of the Procedure and House Rules Committee of the 11th Parliament will remember why we had to graduate it. It was to avoid a situation which was deemed by the House to have been very high- handed because there was no graduation of the penalties. The Member for Ugunja is a beneficiary of the former Standing Orders. It is for that reason that we provided in Standing Order No.107 for disorderly conduct and in Standing Order No.107 (a) for grossly disorderly conduct. It moves on. It is proper that the Leader of the Minority Party was deemed by the Chair to have been disorderly. Therefore, under Standing Order No.107, he could only be suspended for a maximum of four days. When the law provides for a maximum, it is the discretion of the person that makes the declaration to determine the minimum. Therefore, Hon. Katoo, I have determined that the Leader of the Minority Party remains outside for the balance of this sitting. I concluded that what he did was disorderly and not grossly disorderly. Hon. Members, do you want to further contribute to the Motion?"
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