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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Abdikadir",
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        "legal_name": "Abdikadir Hussein Mohamed",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, three, the issues we are handling deal with constitutional offices and have timelines. Today is the deadline. On the second motion, Monday is the deadline. If those deadlines are not met, this House will have breached the Constitution and a statute that it passed. The CIOC was set up at the Constitution level. It is the only committee, other than the Parliamentary Service Commission, that is actually constitutionally set up. The others are creatures of Standing Orders and statutes, including the CDF committee. The CIOC is a Constitutional committee overseeing a process, and is set up at that level. Among other things, its mandate is to take appropriate action when there is an impediment to the implementation. If this House has not sorted out the issue of the Legal Affairs Committee, there is no better place to handle that impediment than at the CIOC. The Constitution actually says that should be the issue to be handled. On the issue of having the Executive sitting in the Committee, the Executive sits in this House. Eighty Members of the Executive are members of this House and the approval is not by the Committee; the approval is by the National Assembly. So, if you stopped the Executive from taking part in approval or oversight, then we would be asking all Ministers and Assistant Ministers to vacate the House. That is why Chapter 8 is not in force; we are not intending to do that. We are under the old fused system, where the Executive sits in Parliament. In terms of public participation, Parliament spent money to advertise and ask members of the public to send their views to the Committee. The hon. Member was out of the country and so, he should have asked: “What did you do while I was away?” He was doing a good job outside there. Finally, it was live on television. That is public participation. Indeed, each of the main newspapers carried editorials on this matter. That is public participation."
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