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    "id": 185561,
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    "speaker_name": "Ms. Karua",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs",
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        "legal_name": "Martha Wangari Karua",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move:- THAT this House do now adjourn until Tuesday, 7th October, 2008. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, traditionally, the House goes on recess around this time to the beginning of October to enable the Committees of this House to concentrate on their work, to enable hon. Members to pay more attention to their constituency work and also to enable other Government businesses to go on in the offices. The adjournment Motion was agreed upon by the House Business Committee and it is in line with the calender. In fact, we were scheduled to rise last week, but an extension of one week was give to enable us to debate various legislations for which I want to pay tribute to this House. We were able to pass the Second Reading of three very important negotiated Bills. We shall now have time to fine tune the amendments that maybe necessary during the Recess so that we can take the process forward. Among those Bills is the National Ethnic and Race Relations Commission Bill, the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission Bill and the Constitution of Kenya Review Bill. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I urge hon. Members to debate this Motion and to allow us to 2446 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES August 7, 2008 proceed on adjournment to enable us to get fresh for the next session. I want to acknowledge that, today, I was approached by the Department Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade seeking a review of the Order of the Business of the House today. But unfortunately, although the House Business Committee meeting was convened, the notice was too short. We were not able to attain quorum. We, therefore, could not discuss their request. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to be very brief in moving this Motion and also say that the events of this session and the events of the beginning of the year have taken a toll on us, I believe each and every Kenyan and more so hon. Members who have to deal with various issues arising out of that. The recess will give a good chance to further the issue of reconciliation and healing and also to attend to the issues arising there from. With those very few remarks, I beg to move and ask Mr. Wetangula to second."
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