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    "id": 1122743,
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    "speaker_name": "Limuru, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Mwathi",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Mungai Mwathi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. At the outset, I want to advise my brother, the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Sports, Culture and Tourism, that you must put your foot down because this is squarely your mandate and whatever the Senate is doing is useless. As a matter of fact, the other day there were skirmishes in Laikipia and we wanted to go and investigate. A week before, this Committee went there against security advice. The Committee on Security from the Senate was there saying it was the one which was mandated. I wonder because we are in this House and we appropriate money for these committees and the Senate itself. Why should we give money for people to go and do that which is not their mandate according to the Constitution? The Constitution is clear. In fact I want to persuade you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. Since you are the leader of this institution, find a way of ensuring that the Standing Orders of any institution which is purporting to do the work we are doing here are not in conflict with the Constitution and if they are, they get quashed at the High Court. You find the mandates of those committees actually similar to what the parent committees in this upper House are doing. I have no doubt in mind that the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security of this National Assembly is the one that is mandated on issues of security. So The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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