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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Members. You leaders have spoken. I just want to advise the House that the Holy Book says, “For everything you do to others, expect it to be done to you”. If you feel it is happy and fair, then it is good. As Hon. Ichung’wah said, the centrality of the Constitution is equity, fairness and justice. All of you who have been given the privilege to serve in committees, you are public trustees. You do not represent yourselves but the country. If Members of a privilege committee only work for themselves, how will Members who serves in the Parliamentary Broadcasting and Library Committee do anything for their constituencies? I want to encourage the Leader of the Majority Party and Leader of the Minority Party, to exercise their duties and responsibilities. They should ensure that this democratically elected House discharges its duties and responsibilities to the satisfaction of every Kenyan, in every part of the country. A person in Mandera, Vanga, Lokitang and Malaba does not sit in this House to get fairness because we all have a duty to discharge fairly. Hon. Omboko Milemba, thank you for bringing up that point. The Leader of the Majority Party and Leader of the Minority Party, as you have assured the House, move and correct that abnormally so that we have fairness. I sit in my office and wonder why almost everybody wants to serve in the Budget and Appropriations Committee. Now, I fully understand why. Those who serve in the Budget and Appropriations Committee are the trustees of public good, so is everybody else whether in the Departmental Committee on Transport or the Departmental Committee on Energy. I just want to encourage you, since many of you are in your first or second term and a few in their third term, to be fair, just and equitable in everything you do if you want to live longer. Thank you. Hon. Farah Maalim."
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