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    "id": 981299,
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    "speaker_name": "Mumias East, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Benjamin Washiali",
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        "legal_name": "Benjamin Jomo Washiali",
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    "content": "except the Leader of the Majority Party and the Leader of the Minority Party, who shall be limited to a maximum of fifteen Minutes (15) each; and that priority in speaking be accorded to the Leader of the Majority Party, the Leader of the Minority Party and the Chairperson of the relevant Departmental Committee, in that order. Hon. Speaker, as usual, I want to remind Members what the Leader of the Majority Party said that whenever we start a Session like this one, we have to do procedural Motions. I invite Members to look at the titles of the procedural Motions that we are moving. We are limiting Members from speaking beyond a certain period. That is why the title of the Motion is limitation. We are limiting. I emphasise this because we have had Members who have not had enough material to cover the entire period of moving. I inform such Members that they can use ten minutes to explain the details of their Motion, then that is acceptable to the House. Even any other Member who would want to support a Motion, the Member does not have to speak the whole ten minutes. They can squeeze their message or plan and speak for even one minute as long as Members get the message as clearly as the Motion demands. Therefore, Hon. Speaker, as my leader said, these are procedural Motions and this specific one, unlike Order No.8, Order No.9 is for Private Members’ Bills. It is important to note the difference between Government Bills, which are usually sponsored by Committees, the Leader of the Majority Party and the Leader of the Minority Party and Private Members’ Bills. They have been limited to three hours and thirty minutes because usually Bills sponsored by Private Members are not as voluminous and that is why we have limited them to three hours and thirty minutes for debating. Hon. Speaker, I beg to move and invite the deputy Whip of the Minority Party, Hon. Chris Wamalwa to second."
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