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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Monda",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Onsare Monda",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand to oppose this Motion. I want to start by going back to the beginning of this year when we were all elected to this House. Every Member of this House remembers that most of the first months were spent in violence. We did not start our work the time we were supposed to, normally. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have been told about the routine of this House that we go on 2468 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES August 7, 2008 recess at around this time. However, we have not asked ourselves when we started the business of the House. There are issues that have been raised in this House by my colleagues. I do not want to repeat the issue of the Grand Regency Hotel. There were also issues about the Rift Valley Railways (RVR). Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is only this week that you directed the Departmental Committee on Health, Housing, Labour and Social Welfare, of which I am the Chairman, to pursue the issue of the Alvaro drink. You directed that we bring a Report to this House within two weeks. It is only this morning that we were putting our house in order so that we can begin investigations. When we, finally, complete our work within 14 days, where will take our Report? What about the other Reports that have been mentioned in this House. It is on that ground that we cannot allow ourselves to be ambushed with a Motion of Adjournment. Really, what has been ruled in this House cannot stand simply because there is a Motion of Adjournment that has ambushed us. With regard to matters of constituencies, we know that every hon. Member has a responsibility to be in his or her constituency when he or she is required there. It is not the business of this House to plan recess so that we can be found in our constituencies. We have been there since we were elected. Those who have not been in their constituencies will not be there even if we went on recess. It cannot be the business of the House to plan what should be done in each constituency. Therefore, I stand to oppose this Motion on grounds that there are matters that are more important to this country than going on recess. They want to create loopholes so that some matters that are important can be skipped when we are on recess. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand to oppose."
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