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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Imanyara",
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        "legal_name": "Gitobu Imanyara",
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    "content": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. It is quite clear that what the Attorney-General is seeking to do is to get you to overturn your own ruling. He is seeking to review your ruling without complying with it. I submit that before you can even address that issue, he ought to table the report as ordered by you, with a request, if necessary, that, that report should not be debated or quoted. There must be compliance with the Speaker’s rulings. Secondly, you will recall that the background to this is that certain officers who may or may not have been mentioned adversely in those reports, but whose names were made public in this House and acknowledged by the Minister, have since been reinstated on the basis of reports that have not been made public. That is the reason that you ordered that this report be tabled. Therefore, is it in order for the Attorney-General to mischievously seek to avoid complying with your order? Is there not a significant constitutional issue here, regarding the scope of the Executive authority over Parliament? What the President did may very well be within his constitutional mandate, but so is the Speaker’s decision within the constitutional mandate. The fact that a report is laid on the Table of the House does not in any way waive the rights of any person who may be adversely mentioned. As I said, he can request that, that report should not be debated or quoted until such time as those investigations are completed. Mr. Speaker, Sir, finally, is it correct and reasonable that the hon. Attorney- General should seek you to review your order without even disclosing how long he needs or the time the authorities will require to carry out investigations before the documents are laid on the Table of the House?"
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