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    "id": 1004751,
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    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to thank the Leader of the Majority Party who has taken up his Job with a lot of vigour, I appreciate it. I want to second and support his sentiments. In the history of this country – I stand to be corrected – that I have read, I do not think that there is any other time that changes have been made in the committees of this House with the magnitude of the proposed changes that have been made on leadership of various committees. The Majority side has been leading most of the committees. They are supposed to make 16 changes if I am not wrong. For us to conduct this exercise in a seamless manner and in a manner that once they are done, there will be no interruption of business in this House because Committees are critical, especially with the coming into place of the 2010 Kenya Constitution, we have to adopt this resolution. We want a seamless process. So, I support that we allow more time and one month is ideal. We may do it before one month but, one month is sufficient and ideal. As the Leader of the Majority Party has pointed out, he is the Chair, by operation of the Standing Orders, of the Committee on Selection. He officially took up that responsibility this morning. Therefore, he has not had the opportunity to even convene a meeting. He cannot convene it until he receives names from both the Majority and Minority Whips who in consultation with us will generate those names. Therefore, this House needs to allow us time so that when we reconstitute these committees, we will not hear Members complaining. There will be a reason if you are removed from one committee to another. There will be a few changes from the Minority side. I am sure my Whip is working on a few changes. We may not do it in the magnitude that we had earlier announced because some of our Members have come back to apologise and are now toeing the line. It is human to err. If you err and you come back and tell us pole or I am sorry, we will forgive you. Many of those Members who initially had been marked for de-whipping and discipline, we have reconsidered our position on them. The few who are chest thumping that they own parties which exist in their minds will face the wrath of the leadership of serious parties. Those who have come back to say they are sorry, we will forgive them and they will continue serving the people of Kenya, their constituents and everybody in their committees. I second the Motion."
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