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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Let me advise. Hon. Nyamai, you are a Chair of a very busy committee. Chairpersons of committees, before whom these functionaries appear, if they bring insufficient responses that even a pedestrian on the streets can tell is inadequate, give it back to them, direct and order them. You do not have to come here. When you are sitting on the chair as the Chair of the Committee, you exercise the functions and powers of the Speaker, please. I now donate them orally to you. You have them in the Standing Orders. When a Cabinet Secretary or any such functionary appears before you and gives you a shoddy answer, and even the Member raising the Question can tell you this one cannot even convince a rat, just return it to the sender and give them specific timeframe within which to come with a proper answer. It is courteous that the Member who has asked the Question or sought a Statement be informed, so that he can tell you whether what has been proffered makes sense or not. But as a Chair, and the committee in general, you can exercise your mind as to the answer given and make a determination whether that answer is befitting or not. So, do not come to lament on the Floor. You have immense powers, especially at this time when the 9th August is drawing closer. Exercise those powers. Do not let off people who are not giving you satisfactory answers. Whoever is raising these issues is doing so on behalf of other Kenyans. I agree with you, Hon. Nyamai. Hon. Fatuma, please, as we have agreed, on Tuesday. Did you want to say something?"
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