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    "id": 1044907,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity to make a comment on the Statement sought by Sen. Iman. I congratulate Sen. Iman for seeking that Statement. I bring to the attention of this House and the Standing Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations, that a direction was given from the Chair sometimes last year, that Statements sought by Members from Committees, should be acted on and reports shared with the Members seeking those Statements before those reports are tabled on the Floor of this House. Madam Deputy Speaker, I am on record. I have sought a Statement related to a fire that brought down the finance offices of the Kitui county government in July of 2019. To date, I have not received any brief from the Committee and no report has been tabled on the Floor this House. Just to request that the Chair should reiterate the position that such reports are not just sought for the sake of seeking Statements, but they are in response to the outcry of the people that have elected us into this House. I felt the pain of the people of Garissa when their Assembly went up in flames. I feel much more pain for the people of Kitui because all the finance documents relating to transactions of the county government of Kitui were burned. There is no Statement or report from the Committee. There is no report from the investigating agencies. Let us not reduce these Statements into talk shows because they should never be like that. When Statements are sought, let us get responses. Madam Deputy Speaker, I will seek and request that you give a directive that as we pursue the matter raised by Sen. Iman, I be given that report that I sought in 2019, in the shortest time possible."
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