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    "id": 1062749,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "This is good because we will not be in a situation where we are unable to articulate issues concerning our people. We can do so through committees and deal with Statements like the one I have read today on matters concerning the people of Kikuyu. During recess, we will have time to process such matters. I also appreciate the fact that we are resuming on 4th May if we pass this Motion. Therefore, we will not worry a lot regarding the processing of the Budget Estimates. Remember, the long recess is usually a working recess where committees retreat to work on Budget Estimates. I am certain following the Procedural Motions after this, we will receive the annual estimates during this long recess. They can be processed when we come back or are away. Therefore, we could do a lot of the work which we were about to do between now and June at the time of processing the Budget. So, I want to beg Members in this House to support this Motion. I also want to point out what the Leader of the Minority Party has said that there are those in the Executive who think they can in any way interfere with the Calendar of this House. There are Cabinet Secretaries you had given directions last week to appear before committees. Since the committees are meeting, I want to ask you in your capacity as the Chair of the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) to allow some committees, especially the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security, to pay for commercial zoom meetings, so that we can take the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Co-ordination of National Government, and his PS, to account. This meeting should be open to as many of us as possible so that nobody in the Executive is deluded that they can interfere with the Calendar of Parliament to run away from accountability to the Kenyan people. Members who ask Questions to the Ministry of Interior and Co-ordination of National Government do not do so for themselves, but for the people they represent. Cabinet Secretaries must appear before committees. In fact, I beg you to give direction on their appearance even on The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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