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    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "here, such as Hon. Caroli Omondi, who took his time to not only send memoranda, but also to appear before the Committee to give his submissions. Hon. Pukose, the Member for Tiaty and many others also appeared on various issues. We do not want to come up with a report that will not consider all those issues. Therefore, we seek the concurrence of the House for an extension of time. The Committee may not need to sit for the entire 30 days. We are cautious not to seek an extension of two weeks or 15 days, and then we run into problems and have to return to the House again, probably during recess. That is why we saw it fit to do this early enough so that we, at least, have another 30 days until the end of November. However, we are certain that we will have completed our work and tabled a report before Parliament before the end of November. We will also report back to the coalition leadership on both sides for a way forward on the issues at hand. I take this opportunity to thank the hundreds of Kenyans who wrote to the Committee and who took their time to submit memoranda through e-mail, some even through WhatsApp, and others by delivering them by hand to Bomas of Kenya and the secretariat in Parliament. I also thank Parliament, the Office of the Clerk, and your Office, Hon. Speaker, for the support, especially on secretarial services, that you have extended to the Committee. As you are aware, we have worked under very strenuous circumstances. We had no budget at all but relied on the support of well-wishers. We pray that the well-wishers who have supported the Committee continue doing so. I am pleading with Members who were very keen to appear before the Committee to also contribute to its budget in these last hours. Unfortunately, one of the civil society organisations funding the Committee’s conferencing facilities indicated they had run out of funds towards the end of last week. That may be part of why we were unable to meet this week. I hope we get the necessary support from other well- wishers who may want to support this endeavour. Hon. Speaker, you have told us numerous times that it never hurts to speak to each other rather than at each other. Through this process, we have surmounted issues that seemed like mountains, which we would never have agreed on through dialogue, negotiations and consultations with mutual respect. Many Kenyans will bear witness that this dialogue process has, in a big way, helped to calm the nation and allowed all of us as leaders to focus on what we were elected to do, which is to deliver services to Kenyans. With those many remarks, I beg to move and request the Leader of the Minority Party, Hon. Opiyo Wandayi, who is also the Azimio Coalition Deputy Delegation Leader, to second, on behalf of his Delegation Leader, Hon. Kalonzo Musyoka."
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