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    "content": "Member for Saboti, yes, that is a bona fide point of order. According to the Standing Orders when a Petition is tabled in the House and referred either to a Departmental Committee or a Government Department, that Committee or Department ought to finalize its investigation and table its response in Parliament, in addition to ensuring that it is addressed to the petitioners and that they become aware of the outcome of the investigation. Unfortunately, in the prevailing circumstances, as you have rightly said, that Petition was committed to the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. So far, no report has been made because the Committee has largely been dysfunctional. However, matters pertaining to that Committee have been active in the sense that they have been addressed and spoken to in the House Business Committee. So far, there has been no solution that has come about. So, given that situation and being aware, further from my position as Speaker, that this matter is going to be addressed again in the House, I want to leave further developments to the course that it will take when it is raised again. Indeed, it will be raised. Maybe, it will be raised this afternoon. Those are the indications that I have. However, I want to reassure Kenyans, just like, you Member for Saboti, that all Members of Parliament recognize and are sympathetic to the contribution that was made by the Mau Mau towards the Independence of this country. We acknowledge them. We appreciate them and we will do everything we can to ensure that they are duly compensated as much as the law permits. I want to give that assurance even as we mark Mashujaa Day tomorrow."
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