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    "id": 1003013,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1003013/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Pokot South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Pkosing",
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        "legal_name": "Losiakou David Pkosing",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, you know these things more than anybody else does, and you have said it very correctly, that there should be some provisions. I sympathise with my colleague, Hon. (Prof.) Zadoc Ogutu, as a colleague who understands what is going on on the ground, because sometimes what we say might not be what is on the ground. Hon. Speaker, if you allow me, I will make two suggestions. One, Members need to put some of these requests as Questions rather than Statements. A Statement is as it is. I am only going to read it here and finish. But a Question gives us an opportunity to interact with the Cabinet Secretary, call the resident engineer, and bring the Members in the discussion, so that some of these things can be sorted out. So, I am suggesting that Members... I have found in my two years’ experience as Chair that there is more interaction in Questions than Statements. If you seek more clarification from me, I will take it to the Ministry to give an answer. It is very dull. I am suggesting that or that you direct, Hon. Speaker, that a Statement like this requires interaction with the Ministry, so that we can take it like a Question and invite the Ministry to interrogate it. Otherwise, Hon. Speaker, I follow your guidance. But I will suggest that either it is done as a Question or you give a ruling that those who make the Statements must appear before the committees. Those are the people who are involved, as you gave in the other first two. Thank you."
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