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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kioni",
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni",
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    "content": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Standing order 97 (f) provides that the conduct is grossly disorderly if the Member concerned deliberately gives false information to the House. When the Minister tabled a report from the ad hoc committee, the first tabling is this report I am holding which is unsigned. It does not come from the committee. It is only written down there “from the ad hoc committee”. On the second tabling, we now have a letter signed by the Chair giving the information as contained in the Minutes of the 16th and approved by Members who are now said to be in the ad hoc committee. This clearly indicates that there is some false information that the Minister is giving because the first tabling that he gave, without any signatures, and you cannot tell the source of this letter, has five nominees or candidates, all of them in codes, 39, 16,19,11 and 25. The second tabling, which is signed by the chairman of the council and it is in line with the minute that was done and confirmed. The minute that was done and confirmed directed this; it says in closing, the meeting was satisfied with the candidates and choose an ad hoc committee to prepare a report through the chairman to forward to the Minister and a covering letter. The second tabling agrees with what the committee had resolved. The first one really is fake and I think a forgery because you cannot say anything else. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it has five names. As the Minister labours to deal with this issue, he is talking of five names that never came from the committee. They never came from the minutes and the minutes that are there and were confirmed in the presence of the individuals who then petitioned--- the petitioning here, the Minister is referring to, is signed by a number of people who were in the meeting that confirmed the choice of three and not five. If you go through the HANSARD, the Minister has repeatedly talked about five names coming from the council and he has not demonstrated in any acceptable manner how he reviewed the five names. Section 5 is very clear. It states that the Minister shall on the advice of the council and by notice in the Kenya Gazette appoint a director of the Bureau. There is no need for discussion. Further, because this is false information, the memorandum that he has tabled says: “From the report and what I have been able to gather on my own, it would appear that there has been no final vetting of the five candidates”. There is a letter from the chairman of the ad hoc committee. These are documents that he has tabled in the House. This is misinformation to the House. Standing Order No.97 is very clear as to what happens to an hon. Member who is responsible for gross misconduct in this House. I think the hon. Member is asking to be named as is required under Standing Order No.97."
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