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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "I can see a number of Members who want to say something. Unfortunately, as you may have heard from both the Leader of Majority and the Minority parties, they are restraining themselves from offending the Standing Orders and, more specifically, Standing Orders forbidding discussion of the substance of matters that may be active before committees table their reports in the House. Suffice to say that the issues which have been raised are matters that are well covered in our Standing Orders and the various pieces of legislation that govern matters to do with integrity, dignity and honour. This is found in the Public Office Ethics Act, Leadership and Integrity Act and broadly captured in the grand norm of the country in Chapter Six. I feel constrained to allow more Members to contribute because the danger is: I am not too sure that many of you may not veer into specifics. We do not want to go into specifics, now that we have just heard about hugging, and I saw it exciting many of you. Let us just be satisfied to that extent. If we are just discussing matters of conduct and decorum, I would expect that by now, many of you having had to campaign, going to great extents to look for votes to convince and/or persuade people to vote for you, I am sure by now we do not need to re-state the point that even those that appear before you, appear as witnesses and you may feel very strongly about them or against them. But remember everybody must have their dignity and you must treat everybody with the necessary respect. If the perception that you send out there is one in which Kenyans may interpret your conduct as pre-judging issues or being in favour of this or the other, then you do not become the representative sample that we expect each one of us to be of the entire institution of Parliament. I see the Member for Kisumu West really agitated. What is the issue John Olago Aluoch?"
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