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    "id": 1100289,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Linturi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 69,
        "legal_name": "Franklin Mithika Linturi",
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    "content": "On a point of information, Madam Deputy Speaker. I agree that this Committee must become more serious. Sen. Murkomen, for your information, on Wednesday, 15th at 8.00 a.m., we had asked the CS for Interior and Coordination of National Government, CS for Land and CS for ASALs to appear before the Committee to answer to matters that relate to the conflicts in those areas, and issues to do with boundary conflicts. Personally, I believe that Parliament is supreme. Parliament is a serious institution, and once one is summoned by Parliament, then they must leave other duties and come to answer before the House on any matter that they have been asked to. When we asked those Cabinet Secretaries to appear before the Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations, this is the response that came from the CS for Interior and Coordination of National Government--- I think he is so overwhelmed and obsessed with power that is short-lived, that will not go beyond 10 months. The letter that came from him and signed by a Mr. Osiya, because he is so ‘big’ that he cannot sign a letter to the Committee, reads as follows: - “The Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government is not in a position to honour the invitation due to exigencies of duty.” For avoidance of doubt and more clarity, when we asked these Cabinet Secretaries to appear, the CS for Interior and Coordination of National Government, through a Mr. Osiya, in a letter dated 14th September - the meeting was supposed to have been yesterday to discuss these issues - wrote to the Committee and said: - “The Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government is not in a position to honor the invitation due to exigencies of duty. You are, therefore, requested to postpone the meeting to a later date.”"
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