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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " The Member for Mwingi West Constituency, Hon. Charles Ngusya (CNN), is always in the House, but he is not in. The Member for Ikolomani Constituency, Hon. Shinali, is usually on and off in the House, and he is not here. What point am I making? Last week, we were in a leadership conference under the able leadership of the Chairperson of the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC), who is also our Speaker. Some of the issues that were raised by Members in that conference is House attendance and, more so, calling on Chairpersons and Vice-Chairpersons. Hon. Deputy Speaker, this afternoon, you had to sit there and wait for at least 10 minutes for us to garner quorum. This House has not less than 60 Chairpersons and Vice-Chairpersons of Committees. We only need 50 Members to transact business. If we add the leadership of the House, we have 70 Members. I counted the Chairpersons who were in the House at the time you asked for the Quorum Bell to be rung, and only five were present and about seven Vice-Chairpersons. Where were the other 43? Hon. Deputy Speaker, as we said in Naivasha, we only have another four weeks of reckoning before we go for a long recess. If you are a Chairperson or Vice- Chairperson of a Committee, you must be in the House at 2.30 p.m. There is no reason for the Speaker to sit and wait for quorum when there are Members with business to be transacted on the Floor. When we have Chairpersons who should be responding..."
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