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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "unless the House has been convinced to extend the time before the 60 days are over. Once the 60 days are over, anything else you are doing with regard to a petition is just for your personal entertainment. If a petition has been lying with a Committee and it has not submitted a report within the 60 days, anything else it does is a waste of public resources. In fact, if any person is invited to appear before the Committee, I have given strict instructions that they should ignore those invitations unless the House, in exercise of its power, has extended the time for consideration of the petition. If you are given 60 days and they are over, please, do not waste any more public time and resources inviting people. They will not come! The Clerk has been accordingly directed not to sign any letters of invitation. He should check when the petition was referred to the Committee. If the Committee has not submitted a report, it is a waste of time. Just fold what you are doing and inform the petitioner that you were not able to finish what you were supposed to do. You should organise your workplans in such a way that within 60 days, you are able to present a report. If for one reason or another you feel that you are unlikely to submit that report, you must come and convince the House that there are reasons or grounds enough to warrant extension of time. That is not just with regard to this Petition. I thank Hon. Barasa for raising that matter and reminding everybody that that is the law. Just look at the Standing Orders. Even as I allow a few more comments, allow me to recognise the presence in the Speaker’s Gallery of a delegation from the County Assembly of Baringo. The delegation is led by the Speaker of the County Assembly, Mr. David Kiplagat, Member of the County Assembly (MCA). I welcome them to observe the proceedings of the National Assembly this afternoon. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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