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    "content": "were grappling with when a chairman of a committee would read a response and then the Member who had asked the Question would say: “This is the most useless answer I have heard since I was born”. The chairs were almost beginning to get very angry because it would look like they are the ones who are being referred to as incompetent. So, I think it would do good when committees get these requests, they should judge for themselves in order to get to the bottom of the matter, whether there is need to interact with the officials concerned or you would want to just get a written response. I think Hon. (Prof.) Zadoc Ogutu is right to say that this is not true and that matters on the ground are different. You are also within your right to read what has been given to you. It leaves the House that much worse off. Hon. Ogutu is unable to play his representative role properly and to even oversee KeRRA and the Ministry. I want to encourage committees and committee chairpersons particularly that whenever you get some of those requests, do not be in a hurry to come and give an answer within a week. There are some which will obviously require that you have some serious engagement with the relevant functionaries that the request may be directed to. It is also unfortunate that the Chairman of the Committee, Hon. Pkosing, has just read what he has been given. I suppose if the Member for Mwingi West was here also, he would have raised similar concerns by way of supplementary questions. Maybe we are lucky that the Member for Mwingi West chose to be absent. It is something that we need to think through. For the last time, let us have the Member for Kajiado Central, Hon. Kanchory. The Member being absent, I drop the request. That request for a Statement is dropped. He should not raise it again in the next one month. He cannot make a request and then decide to go and get the responses in the village. He wanted the request read out here in Parliament."
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