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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will do it very briefly. I appreciate because I have just come in and normally one would not really want to intervene when he or she has been away. However, I remember in the “old House” Question Time was known as show time. It was not part of serious business. What bothers me is that even the Statements that are given do not come directly from the Cabinet Secretaries as Sen. Wako has said. It is second hand information. In any case, even by dint of the Standing Orders, the Statements should be from Chairpersons. Therefore, in those circumstances, where there is separation of powers, our duty is oversight and legislation. We should think seriously about reducing the time we take on Statements. I have raised this in the Rules and Business Committee (RBC). We are taking too much time on Statements. The effect of it is that when you have real business like legislation - when people find that most of the time goes to Statements, when it comes to legislation, nobody is interested. In fact, yesterday, as soon as Sen. Wako moved a Bill which is very important, everybody including myself was moving out. There is nobody to listen to what is the business of the House. Similarly, even the serious Motion that was being moved by Sen. Murkomen yesterday, nobody was paying a lot of interest because we have put too much premium on Statements. Statements come from people who do not come here. Sen. Murungi was crying about his Statement which has been pending for so long; coming from people who are not interested in the Legislature because they are a distinct arm of the Government. So, I would also want to add my voice. I am in the RBC and we will try to change the order of things so that the core business of the House does not suffer."
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