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    "id": 1114729,
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    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. While I may not have the time to respond to some of these other issues, it is good to advise the Member for Mwea that I have tremendous respect for all Members of Parliament including first-timers. However, that respect must be two-way. When Members is on their feet, you do not shout at them. You should behave in a mature manner like the Vice-Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security who has advised that the Member for Mwea was, indeed, moved from that Committee to another one. The question I am raising is the perception we create as a House, where there is no regional balance and where we use the movement within committees to de-whip Members. I mentioned the Majority Party and you can see they are even concerned to respond to that. They are responding to the issue of Hon. Oimeke. I want to tell Hon. John Mbadi that Hon. Oimeke has a right to serve in that Committee, but we must ask ourselves the moral question. Given that he has a case relating to that energy sector and having served immediately before his election as a Member of Parliament in that parastatal, would he offer meaningful oversight? In my view, the most important thing is the misuse by the Majority Party of the movements within committees to de-whip Members based on their political affiliations. Today, the Chair and the Vice-Chairperson of the Budget and Appropriation Committee were nowhere to be seen during the Questions segment because they were busy out there with other issues. As I contribute to this debate, you can see the Chair, Budget and Appropriation Committee is walking in after finishing his business at the Serena Hotel. As a lone voice and for the sake of our parliamentary democracy, I oppose this list."
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