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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, I want to first of all understand because there are other proposed amendments. There are proposed amendments by Hon. Kaluma and Hon. Maanzo. As you can see, the Committee has had to make several amendments though it appears to be quite untidy. Of course, the House has liberty to make certain recommendations. I am just wondering, when you make a recommendation to an investigatory body like the EACC, which is a constitutional commission, and you tell them that within 60 days they report back to the National Assembly, if they find a crime has been committed, should they bring the report back to us to dance with it here or should they forward it to the Directorate of Public Prosecution to prosecute? I do not know, but it is like this thing is not well informed. We have just extended some Motions to the Committee on Delegated Legislation because the committees responsible were not able to do what they were supposed to have done, even within our own Standing Orders. Hon. Koinange had a similar situation on the Question raised by Hon. Rasso. Now you are giving a constitutional body, a constitutional commission, 60 days to report to you. I do not know. I thought they report annually. They give their annual reports of the work they have done to Parliament. They know where they take their investigations. It is obvious that as a House, you could easily be acting in vain and embarrass yourselves, when you begin to issue this kind of… It is possible you can amend this so that you give them the latitude to investigate. When they bring their report of the work they have done to the House, as they are required to do as per the Constitution, that is when you are able to interrogate them and take them on using the powers of Article 251. But now, this is setting yourself up for some interesting situation. Let me also get this, Hon. Kajwang’. Are we talking about the same thing?"
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