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    "id": 1108768,
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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": "with Hon. Gladys Wanga, it is, indeed, true that it was on the committees own volition, but remember when I rose on a point of order, if the Chair, Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning, Hon. Gladys Wanga, can listen to me, I was aware and I indicated that it is on the Committee’s own volition. What I was trying to avoid is Members of this House or chairpersons of committees using our committees to drive certain political perceptions. It is very possible today that as a Member, I can use this Floor or even committees’ sittings, with the media present, to drive certain perceptions regarding the pandora papers. It is, therefore, not fair for Hon. Wanga to tell us that because the Committee was moving on its volition, she can take whatever amount of time she desires. That will be an abuse of our own processes and procedures to use the Floor of the House or the committees of the House to drive political agenda. I am asking this on a very serious note. If you sit as Speaker and allow Members to either use the Floor of committees to drive political perceptions, we may as well know we are free to do that and we can use our committees to discuss in the media and elsewhere anything on the pandora papers and those who have stashed money out of our economy by investing elsewhere. We can also do it on our own motions!"
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