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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mbadi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we thank God for his quick recovery because he has fully recovered. Having said that, I want to vigorously oppose this Motion. I think a lot has been said about the re-appointment of Mr. Ringera. I want to say that for any hon. Member of this House who wants the Executive to respect this House and wants not to see a rogue Executive the way we are seeing, we must sort out the issue of Ringera before we go on recess. This is my main reason for opposing this Motion. A lot has been said about what we are going to do at home. Every time we debate on going for recess, Members stand here and lecture us on how we need to be in our constituencies to monitor development. For sure, during recess, Members are even busier in Nairobi than at home. This is when we have committee meetings. I think this is an excuse rather than a reason to adjourn this House. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would appeal to Members of this House to vigorously oppose this Motion, including the Front Bench. If the Mover of this Motion was honorable enough, he would withdraw it so that we continue and sort out the issues that we want sorted out. Otherwise, we will still have war with the Executive. We do not want to engage in war with the Executive. Yesterday, the main reason that the Government wanted us to reduce the publiccation period for the Appropriations Bill from seven days to five days was that the Motion was very critical and that we needed the money. Today, I do not see the same argument from the Government. We have been generous enough to give the Government more time to bring that Appropriations Bill when it matures. I would now ask the"
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