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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this important Motion for Adjournment. Those of us who came here in January and took our work seriously know that there is a lot of work in this House. On Mondays, we have Committee meetings. On Tuesday morning, there is also a Committee meeting. On Tuesday, we have a sitting in the afternoon. Also, on Wednesday, we sit the whole day. Also, we sit for the whole day on Thursday. It is only weekends when we get time to dash out there. We cannot really achieve much to the extent that those we defeated during the last general election have started raising their heads because we have been in Nairobi for seven months and we have never gone back to our people. It is time that we adjourn and go back home to hold several barazas to explain to our people how Parliament works, what we have achieved and what we have planned for them. That way, we would balance between Parliament and our constituencies. A lot of things have happened in this country that we have not had, time to explain to our people. With regard to the issue of students going on strike, we need to go and consult with our people. We need to go and discuss with our people. This question of homecoming parties and healing--- I promise my friend, Mr. Wamalwa, that I will go with him to Trans Nzoia as soon as possible. I had promised, my friend, Mr. Kones, that we will go to his place and he will come to my place. That way, we will have interaction and that will heal this country. But if we are tied to this House from January to December, we will have no time to go out there and balance things. This is why it is important to have a parliamentary calender to organize our activities. It will not require the Motion for adjournment to be brought here so that when we come to August, we know it is recess time. We should go home and attend to other matters. Many Committees have planned, and at least, I know two, to go on safaris and deliberate on certain important matters. But if we do not adjourn, all those plans will be thrown into disarray. There is no more urgent business that cannot wait until we resume. Work never gets finished. You do what you can when you are there and you leave the other for tomorrow. When you come back, you do the other one tomorrow. This is why I would like to plead with my fellow hon. Members. In all sincerity, look at the Bench that I was sitting on. There is nobody other than hon. Affey and myself. It is because hon. Members are tired, even to the extent that I have seen others trying to exercise in the House. I do not think that this is in order. This is why we need this recess. We have just been handed a big document on amended Standing Orders. We need time to go and study that document, so that when we are called by the Speaker for a workshop, we are ready to debate and polish it. We will be ready to come back here and not waste time because we cannot follow the Standing Orders. So, it is so important that we take the next one or two months to go and do those things that we cannot do in this House. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to appeal to my colleagues to pass this Motion for Adjournment. If we do not pass it, those of us who consider constituencies to be a big business in our life in Parliament, may not get that chance to go and settle that business. Many of these hon. Members do not only want to be seen on cameras. Basically, they want to be seen by their people. I, particularly, not only want to be focused by the television cameras, but also want to go and address them, so that we can exchange views. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I beg to support the Motion."
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