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    "id": 1023143,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Roysambu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Isaac Ndirangu",
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Waihenya Ndirangu",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for the information by the Leader of the Majority Party. I wish to inform them that this Petition was presented by my constituents to yourself, and you are the one who delivered it and spoke about it in this Chamber. You ordered the Departmental Committee on Lands to efficiently make findings and report to the House. This was under Standing Order 220, where you are authorised to make a presentation of a petition from Kenyans. Our Constitution is very clear in Article 95(5) that the National Assembly exercises oversight over State organs. Article 124 also empowers each House to establish committees that may conduct proceedings on its behalf. Parliamentary committees perform a multiplicity of tasks but, of key relevance in this instance, is conducting investigations on special issues and making reports and recommendations to the House under Standing Order 216. The Committee presented its Report in the House and it was laid before the House on 5th December 2019. Early this year, the same petitioners, through myself, requested your office to allow this Motion to be debated and adopted under special circumstances as provided under Standing Order 225. Last week, Hon. Speaker, you authorised a Procedural Motion exempting this business from the Standing Orders, so that we can deliberate on it. I read mischief in the position taken by the Leader of the Majority Party. Earlier in the day, when you were away, he presented an advisory from the Attorney-General, saying that there has been communication that this matter is sub judice . I want to make it very clear that the petitioners are members of Roysambu Community Development Society. I know there is a litany of cases surrounding that matter. But that group, who are former workers in that farm, have never gone to court. And if the Leader of the Majority Party has court proceedings detailing the case by the Society, he should table it in the House. It is very sad that this morning, the Leader of the Majority Party and the former Leader of the Majority Party ganged up in this House to express disdain and contempt for the work of this House. The Report that was laid on the Table of this House was confirmed and signed by all the 19 members of the Committee. And they agreed with the findings. This is the Report we are being asked today to adopt. But when the former Leader of the Majority Party stood to speak, he said that all the four petition requests that the petitioners placed in your office and which you read in this House could not be provided by a resolution of this House. If that is the trend the Leader of the Majority Party is going to continue with, he will be busy killing this House. This House should be able to express itself and to do what Kenyans have petitioned it to do."
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