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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ethuro",
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        "legal_name": "Ekwee David Ethuro",
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    "content": "Can the Minister learn to listen! Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, first, I want to plead with my colleagues that, if you have nothing to say, you can listen to the rest of us who have something. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, secondly, I just want to make two observations. One, we were on Order No.11, the Committee of the whole House. That is the final decision making of this House in terms of legislative matters. When we are in the Committee of the whole House, we never remove Ministers or Assistant Ministers. Indeed, their input is so critical in the laws that we make. So, how can you argue that now you cannot do the same in a Committee of the whole House that still brings its work to the whole House? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thirdly, the Parliamentary Select Committee, which became CIOC, traditionally had Ministers in the Committee even in previous Parliaments. That never became an issue and, with due respect to my able Vice-Chair of the party that is the senior partner in the coalition, I beg that he indulges us on this one. Finally, when you hear hon. Nyamweya talking, it is like that voice in the wilderness that is crying for justice; that is crying for the reconstitution of the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee. The sooner the Leader of House Business does it, the sooner the Speaker does it, the better for all of us. I support."
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