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    "id": 1527004,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " Thank you Hon. Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, further to the resolutions of the House of 5th and 6th March 2025 regarding reconstitution of Committees, this House resolves as follows: 1. That, with respect to Departmental Committees, where a Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson is ordinarily elected for the term of Parliament, the elections will only be undertaken for the positions of Chairperson or Vice-chairperson which fell vacant as a result of the recent reconstitution of Committees, being the following: (a) Chairpersons for the Departmental Committees on Energy; Environment, Forestry and Mining; Health; Labour; and Trade, Industry and Cooperatives; and (b) Vice-Chairpersons for the Departmental Committees on Education; Lands; Regional Development; and Tourism and Wildlife; and 2. That, with respect to all other Select Committees which were reconstituted pursuant to the Standing Orders and whose leadership also lapsed at the commencement of this Session, elections for all Chairpersons and Vice-Chairpersons will be undertaken for the respective vacant positions, as per the schedule circulated by the Clerk on 6th March 2025. The import of this Motion is to allow the House to elect chairpersons and vice- chairpersons for the 18 select committees whose term had lapsed. They have no chairpersons and vice-chairpersons and are naturally going to hold elections to elect them. Secondly, the Motion seeks to limit elections of departmental committees to those whose chairpersons and vice-chairpersons were affected by the reconstitution of committees. These are chairpersons of Departmental Committees on Environment, Forestry and Mining; Energy; and Trade, Industry and Cooperatives, who were moved from one committee to another. Therefore, these committees do not have substantive chairpersons. The same applies to the Departmental Committees on Tourism and Wildlife; Regional Development; Education; and Lands whose vice-chairpersons were moved. Therefore, they are expected to hold elections. The import of this is that all other departmental committees shall not hold elections for chairpersons and vice-chairpersons. Hon. Speaker, I heard you ask Hon. Oundo to go back to his usual seat. It is only Members of the Public Accounts Committee and him who understand why he was moved from one committee to another. I have seen this somewhere."
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