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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I move this Motion, I want to make a couple of comments. I want to thank my colleague Mr. Midiwo for the co-operation. It has been very difficult as hon. Members are aware of what is going on and as has been captured in the media. This was not an easy task. It was complicated further by the fact that all the MPs in this House are eminently qualified to sit in many of these Committees and would indeed love to be in particular Committees. It is not always possible to accommodate all of us. Within the confines of the Standing Orders where the limitations to numbers were proposed and passed in the new Standing Orders by the same hon. Members, I hope you will acknowledge that it has not been an easy task. If anybody feels that he or she was left out from a Committee that he or she prefers to be in, I call upon you to accept this for now and to accept that all of you are capable of serving in any Committee and that indeed, we are called upon to serve in all these Committees including the ones that may not be most popular. There is a lot of work to be done and I know hon. Members are up to the task. I am extremely grateful for the understanding of all the hon. Members that we spoke to. Some of them did not necessarily get the Committees of their choice. I also want to say that in the spirit that has been there between the Whips and the parties as we went through this process of give and take, I hope it will come through as we go through the elections of various chairs. Even though this is not a rule, generally, we have agreed that where a chair is elected from either of the two main parties, for instance, it would be fair if hon. Members move away from the idea of the winner-takes-it-all and accept that the vice chair comes from the other side so that we are seen to work together as a team and as a House."
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