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    "id": 1195311,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugunja, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "Let me say from the outset what we have before us, in my view, is work in progress. Hon. Members, if you will recall, the Standing Orders dictate that those Members who will be lucky enough to become chairpersons, will have to relinquish their membership in their second or third committees. So, they remain in only one committee each. Of course, this will create more chances and opportunities for other Members who might have been disadvantaged in this first phase of their allocations. A weighty process such as this one is bound to have cases of omission or commission. Again, this will be rectified in the coming one week or so, once the committees settle. Let me also take this opportunity to thank our Members for having been cooperative and developing understanding that in a process such as this one, it is a matter of give and take. You may end up not getting what you had desired, but that is not to mean you have lost out completely. It is such a weighty exercise that every other term of Parliament takes time to eventually have everything settled. As stated by Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah, the demand for specific Committees was enormous. It is an issue that we might want to ventilate on in future. What interests Members in these specific Committees? What is it in the Budget and Appropriations Committee? What is it in the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing? What is it in the Departmental Committee on Energy? What is it in the Committee on Administration and National Security? This is a discussion that we may want to have in future for us to be able to address the concerns and interests of Members in the coming years so that we do not have this kind of commotion. By and large, it is an exercise that has called for serious negotiations and deliberations."
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