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    "speaker_name": "Pokot South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Pkosing",
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        "legal_name": "Losiakou David Pkosing",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I will limit myself. This is a very important question particularly for us, Chairs. If you are to go the way Hon. Millie is suggesting, that we use strictly Standing Orders, it will appear like we are demeaning our own colleagues before witnesses. If you go to Standing Orders and you want to throw your own colleague out, throwing out a Member from the Floor of the House and throwing him out of the Committee is different. On the Floor, we are all colleagues but in committees, there are witnesses. They will lose value. They will feel that they are demeaned. That is why you need to guide us. My addition to what honourable colleagues have said is that there are two ways of analysing interest, in my view. One, somebody like Sossion is showing very positive interest on the other side but there might also be another person or another honourable Member who has extreme negative interest on the same witness before you. When you are making your ruling, you may want to also pursue that angle that: What about if an Hon. Member who is a member of the Committee has serious negative interest about the witnesses who appears before the Committee and raising it might also look like an interest? He is using the Committee maybe to demean a witness before you. 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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