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    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, the Chairman of the cohesion committee is standing between me and you. That is against the Standing Orders. That is what the Speaker said on 26th July 2018. I do not want to reiterate what the law says, or indeed Standing Order 90, as these provisions on declaration of interest are well within the knowledge of Members. However, I am here today raising this point of order in support of the Chair of the Education Committee on matters of conflict of interest and it is clear evidence that Members have decided not to be guided by your communication, the law and the Standing Orders on conflict of interest. Let me make it very clear: The communication of the Speaker, and even previous Speakers, becomes part of the sets of laws that the House will always refer to. Just recently the Member for Kikuyu, Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah, rose on a point of order in relation to the Member for Mathioya, Hon. Peter Kihara, who proposed amendments to the Insurance Bill, 2018 relating to insurance brokers when he himself owns an insurance brokerage. We have since forgiven the Member. The issue of conflict of interest is, however, real and still in existence and this calls for this House to rethink whether Standing Order 90 is effective as it is as Members continue to breach it. I will give examples. A case in point is Hon. Wilson Sossion who is a Member of the Education and Labour Committees yet he is the Secretary-General of KNUT; Hon. Omboko Milemba, who is the former Chair of KUPPET, is also a member of both committees. Allow me to pose a question: Should Members who are trade unionists participate in the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare when it is considering employees’ or workers’ matters 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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