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    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Mohamed",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, I second. I was away yesterday when the list was tabled and passed here. I wish to congratulate Members who have been nominated to different committees. The membership of committees will keep on changing because many factors come into play such as attendance and experience, as Hon. Osoro said yesterday. I urge Members to bear with us. I am currently seated next to a Member who wants to be moved from one committee to another. I am pleading with her to stay in that committee for one month, and if she is still uncomfortable, we will re-evaluate. This is an ongoing exercise, as the Leader of the Majority Party has said. After the election of the chairpersons and vice-chairpersons, some Members will leave certain committees because chairpersons are only allowed to sit in the committee they chair. There will be another review to re-align the names of Members, after which we will bring another list back to the House, so that we populate the committees conclusively until the elections. I saw a Member yesterday saying that he cannot be removed from the committee he is serving in because it is un-procedural. It is the prerogative of the leadership, especially the Chief Whips of the Majority and Minority parties, to place Members in committees. You do not come from your house with a committee. You come here and wait to be placed in a committee. You can be discharged or de-whipped from any committee at any time. The Standing Orders state that a Member should only be in one committee. Even the Members’ Services and Facilities Committee that deals with catering is a committee of Parliament. People should not belittle those who take care of our food, tea, and mandazi. Hon. Jayne Kihara has been placed in the Members’ Services and Facilities Committee, which is fitting because she is a mother and should work there. She knows what to do much better than all of us. We only want the best of the best to serve on that Committee. If you can cook food in your house, why not also do it in Parliament? It is the prerogative of the leadership and Chief Whips of the Majority and Minority parties to place you in a committee or to discharge you from a committee. If your conduct is unbecoming, you will be dewhipped from the committee you serve in. With those few remarks, I support the Motion."
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