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    "id": 1199555,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity. I will try to be as brief as I can. The principal function of the committees is to perform the tasks of this House. Our job in the committees is to investigate and scrutinize Government policies, particularly the Executive. In this House, our work is to oversight county governments. My colleagues’ sentiments notwithstanding, I know it is challenging to satisfy everyone’s desire once you are in leadership. I come from a school of thought that believes that it is a little bit self-defeating when you wash your dirty linen in public. Whatever challenges that we might have as a coalition, those are teething problems which we understand and we will deal with them when the time comes. The most important thing is that campaigns are over. It is hypocritical when some of us stand here to campaign and issue threats. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to beseech this House to support this Motion in its entirety. Our Standing Orders are quite clear in that parliamentary parties have the privilege to nominate individuals to House committees. Time will come when we will review this. There will also be time when others will be de-whipped, just like I was de-whipped in the previous Parliament. So, some of these things are normal. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like you to beseech my colleagues to let it rest, so that we move on because we need to start scrutinizing Government policies."
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