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    "speaker_name": "Igembe North, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Maoka Maore",
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        "legal_name": "Richard Maore Maoka",
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    "content": "I would like to just give an example of myself. I remember my first days in this Parliament. All your panel members were actually in school, including one of them whose dad I was with here. So, it is normal or natural when we indicate we want to speak, you do not take two hours before you can notice that the Chair is disregarding the issue of the ranking. When we legislated this, as raised by Hon. Angwenyi as well, in the 1990s, there are those who could speak for one week and actually cause a lot of anger. So, this limitation was actually legislation out of anger. When you legislate in anger, you do not perpetuate that anger or hold it in perpetuity. It is good that we change some of these traditions. You noticed last week on Monday Members were given one minute to speak in honour of somebody who had served this country for nearly 50 years. At least three minutes would have been the best discretion. Hon. Speaker, we also wish to invite you to use your own judgement to make sure that, in future, we shall never have any Member speaking for a minute on whatever topic it might be. That is a ridicule of the entire parliamentary proceedings. There is not much you can say in one minute. There is no guarantee that every Member has to speak so that you give them one minute each. Even if it is only 30 or 40 Members who will go on record, at least, let them make some sense by giving them three to five minutes. Anything to do with one or two minutes should never be allowed to be part of the judgement of the Chair in any debate in this House. With that, I beg to move and request to be seconded by Hon. Kioni."
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