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    "id": 1524862,
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    "speaker_name": "South Mugirango, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Silvanus Osoro",
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    "content": "for by the Standing Orders. Currently we have two main political affiliations: Kenya Kwanza Alliance or Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya Coalition Party. We also considered the question of gender and regional balance. The Budget and Appropriation Committee generated a high interest, with over 90 Members expressing interest in it. This was not very easy to decide; 90 Members expressed interest yet the Standing Orders only provide for 27. Therefore, the only way one can balance such issues is by coming up with a formula to consider aspects such as regional and gender balance, as well as political affiliations, negotiations and counter negotiations. This has not been very easy. Therefore, we urge this House to support this list as it is. There has also been a lot of politics as far as the formation of this list is concerned. There are sentiments that by the lapse of the formation of these committees, some Members will be moved, as the Chairpersons, from one side to another. I would like to inform the House that it is the Members who have been selected – upon their approval by this House – that will sit down, within seven days, and elect their own Chairpersons. Let it never come out there, for political reasons, that the leadership will influence the election of a specific Member as Chairperson and another one ejected. Those powers are not a preserve of the House leadership. It is the prerogative of the Members who sit on those committees to elect the Chairperson that they want and, therefore, such matters should not be politicised. If you lose an election in the committee that you have been placed in, do not blame some leaders or bring in the issue of politics and political persuasions; they are neither here nor there. Upon approval by this House, the membership of the committees, as indicated in the Schedule, have seven days to sit and elect their Chairpersons and Vice-Chairpersons. After that, they can come up with a schedule of their programmes. There are too many urgent matters that need to be handled. In the past two weeks, several urgent matters have been handled by the Liaison Committee. The Committee, through the Chairperson, the Deputy Speaker, has been very busy moving around the corridors doing the work that these committees ought to have done. That is why we urge that once the committees are formed, they should move with speed and elect their Chairpersons and Vice-Chairpersons. There are urgent matters that the committees should expedite. The issues such as NG-CDF, Budget Policy Statements (BPS) and the Supplementary Budget should be handled by these committees once they have been formed. Hon. Speaker, I beg to move, in the amended form, to include Hon. Irene Mayaka, who replaces Hon. Orero Peter Ochieng’, in the Committee on Regional Integration."
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