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    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Before I move, allow me to take this opportunity to welcome Members back for this Session after the three weeks working recess. I also want to thank all Members, especially those who are members of departmental committees, for taking the time during the recess to consider the Budget Estimates for the next Financial Year and the Supplementary III Budget Estimates. I thank them for the time they have committed to the work of the House. It is their work that has made it possible for us to resume and have business to process. Moving on, I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, notwithstanding the Resolution of the House of 13th February 2025 and pursuant to the provisions of Standing Orders 28(4) (Calendar of the Assembly) and 30(3) (Hours of meeting), this House resolves to alter its Calendar as follows – (i) not to hold a Morning sitting on Wednesday, 28th May, 2025; (ii) to commence the short recess of the Second Part on Friday, 27th June 2025; and, (iii) to resume Regular Sittings on Tuesday, 22nd July 2025, to continue with the Second Part of the Fourth Session. As you have mentioned, this is a Procedural Motion that will allow Members, as you communicated, to have time to attend the National Prayer Breakfast tomorrow morning. For the benefit of those who were not present earlier, the National Prayer Breakfast is scheduled to be held tomorrow morning at 6.45 a.m. at the Safari Park Hotel in Nairobi. All Members are invited. Therefore, we will not have our usual Wednesday Morning Sitting. We will resume our sittings tomorrow in the afternoon. That is the first change. Two, if you may recall, we cut our recess short by one week. We ought to have resumed next week. That was occasioned by the National Prayer Breakfast. We are simply realigning the Calendar so that we can have a five-week session, followed by a short recess, and then resume for another five weeks before taking a long recess in mid-August. We will proceed with the normal business once we are done with the priority business that has been lined up, especially the budget-related business, at the end of this month. Remember all these things must be passed by 30th June, which is a Monday. Therefore, the last sitting day will be on Thursday 26th June. We will proceed with our short recess on 27th June and resume on Tuesday, The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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