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    "id": 1103736,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, while I share the concerns of Sen. Kajwang’ the distinguished Senator for Homa Bay County, about the Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations, I discourage the piece meal approach in doing business of the House. The Senate Majority and Minority Leaders are in the House and their Whips and other leadership cadres are available. Instead of allowing young Sen. Cherargei to display rage and shout ‘ tuta angusha ’, we need to work as a House. The purpose of the Whips is to consult Members on whether they want to move from one Committee to another and whether they are comfortable to be in this or that Committee. That is the work of Whips. That is how we did things in the last Parliament. This House has cultivated some tremendous public confidence and respect. For us to degenerate into altercations, quarrels and shouting at each other over committees is beneath our dignity. I truly encourage the Leadership that this is a matter that we can do within an hour so that Members who have been assigned new committees can get to work. The issue is once a Member sees his or her name on the Floor that he has been moved from one committee to another, they stop going to that committee where they have been indicated to have been moved out of. So, the committees suffer because of the delay in making the decision. They cannot go to the committee they have been assigned because the House has not approved the movement. So, it cuts both ways. As the Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations is suffering, other committees are also suffering. Even if a Committee is properly constituted but meetings are constantly attended by only three Senators, it undermines its credibility and confidence. So, I urge the distinguished Senators for West Pokot and Siaya, as the Leadership of the House, to get their Whips in order and get things done."
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