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    "id": 770261,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
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    "content": "We are only limiting you to one committee so that you can put all your talents and energy in the PSC work. However, because you are a member of this Assembly, we cannot take it away from you. It is your constitutional right to be in this Chamber and you must participate in committees by right. That is your constitutional right which was given to you by the people who voted you here. We cannot take it away. That is why you must participate in one committee even though you are a member of the PSC. However, we are only restricting that you appear in one committee. The second thing is, yes, Hon. Makali has a point but we are trying to see how we can rejuvenate all our committees so that they are the same things. As I said, if I serve in what we used to call Catering Committee, if I am going to appear before that Committee every 1.00 O’clock, I should have the same respect like all other committees. Another example is the Committee on Implementation. You know a committee is as effective as the chair. If you want that committee to die, you can even kill Public Accounts Committee (PAC). We saw chairmen here of PAC who could not present reports for three or four years. So, if you are the chair of the Committee on Implementation, you must go to the archives and find out what this House said which needs to be implemented and how it can be implemented. So, it is just as good as the chair and members in that committee. We think that the proposals as they are here will capture what we want to do so that we release more committees to members. What we have done in subsection (3) is to release about 68 committees back to the members so that as many members as possible are able to participate. Thank you very much."
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