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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Murgor",
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        "legal_name": "Julius Recha Murgor",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to air my views. I rise to oppose this Motion. It seems like the Members who are advocating for a break are running away from something. So, maybe if we give it a week or two, we will know what they want to run away from in this House. Also, we were elected to represent the people here and not in the village. So, why are we going away from where we are supposed to be and represent the people and articulate their issues? They have already given us the mandate and yet, we want to go away from where we are supposed to be. We should be here so that we can articulate the problems that our constituents are facing. There are important matters ahead of us that every Member should be here to represent his or her people on and debate. When the Report is laid on the Table, we should all be here. If we go back now, we will not have an answer for our people. What is the hurry for? We should wait until we exhaust those reports so that we can take them back to our constituents. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is common knowledge and obvious that most Members will be in Nairobi even though they are advocating to go back home. They will not go there! Many Members said that if you look around, you will see the presence of tiredness. That is not true because when you look around, you will wonder. Normally, at this time we would be fewer than we are now. So it is not true that the number in the House now shows any tiredness. An hon. Member mentioned that we need to go home to learn Standing Orders. I do not know who will be the teacher in the village, because Standing Orders only apply in the House. We can learn them in the House and practise them in the House. I do not know who the teacher will be in the village. Therefore, that does not hold water. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Members advocating for going home now are saying that we need to go home to do \"a\",\"b\",\"c\",\"d\", and yet the same Members have been getting mileage claims after every weekend. So, you wonder where they have been going to so as to claim mileage every weekend. Why do they want to show us that this is the most crucial time when they have been going home every weekend. If they have not been going home, where have they been going to and what have the claims been for? I oppose."
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