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    "id": 1015584,
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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": " Hon. Speaker, that is exactly what I wanted to say. Probably, we will have to develop a way of reprimanding these Chairs. In the previous dispensation, it was very easy. If a minister or an assistant minister does not address or answer a question, he was barred from doing anything in the House. Anything from that Ministry could not be dealt with in the House. Now we have the ministers out there and the chairs here, we need to find a way. It is not just the questions. Even the Bills! We were discussing this yesterday in the House Business Committee. Some Bills, like the one for Hon. Millie Odhiambo, which was brought here for the First Reading in June 2019, and the Committee is not done with the Report, so we cannot proceed to the Second Reading with the same Bill. It is disheartening when you find Members coming up with Private Members Bills and Motions and we are here dealing with Senate Bills from Private Members. Yet, our own Members from the National Assembly are being neglected just because some of the committee chairs... It is not all of them. There are some hardworking committee chairs in this House. We should not just guillotine and lump them together. But there are some who have issues. It is high time Leader of the Majority Party, we need to highlight, bring to shame the Chairs who are not taking their work seriously. These Members are ready to serve as chairs of committees. If you are overwhelmed, please go and do your business out there. There are Members who are doing business. They are also Members of Parliament and they want to be in leadership. If you have too much on your plate, leave others to do the parliamentary work. Maybe, the Committee on House Procedures can take this up and develop some ways of dealing with these chairs. I know the Deputy Speaker has been trying. In fact, this is the most active Liaison Committee. I did not want to push the blame to him. He has tried, but these Members do not just want to obey."
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