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    "id": 102213,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/102213/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Duale",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Livestock Development",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
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    "content": " Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to oppose the adoption of this Report. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, from the outset, I would like to say that Parliament has a legal mandate under the Standing Orders for its Committee to take an audit of public institutions and the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing is within its own right. But on the issue of the recruitment of the MD of KAA, we need to be very clear and send a direction in this House that Parliamentary Committees will at all times work within the framework of the Standing Orders of this House, the Constitution and other provisions that run the statutory bodies that are under various departments of Government. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, when we were on recess, a number of Parliamentary Committees were under scrutiny. We had the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations at war with the Minister for Foreign Affairs. We also had the Departmental Committee on Health at war with the Minister for Medical Services on the recruitment of the Director of the Kenya Medical Training College. Today, we have again another Departmental Committee that is in the public domain, that has the same problem with the Minister for Transport. If it is about equity; that we want boards and the management of parastatals to reflect the face of this country and have a regional balance, then the right Committee to handle that is the Committee on Equal Opportunity. It is not based on the Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing. That mandate is within---"
}