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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Okemo",
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        "legal_name": "Chrysanthus Barnabas Okemo",
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    "content": "However, I understand the predicament in which the Government is. First of all, the House Business Committee (HBC) has completely failed to generate business for this House. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are in an embarrassing situation where we have an Order Paper with two Questions on every single sitting day and Bills, which are supposed to go through the First Reading, Second Reading and the Committee Stage, being forced to happen on one occasion simply because we have no business. Not too long ago, the Minister for Finance came here and told us that he was seeking leave of the House to make sure that the period between the publication of the Bill and the debate should be shortened because the House did not have enough business. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, are we going on recess because we do not have business or because we need a recess? I think the former is the case; that we have no business, therefore, we want to find the justification to go home. We should continue until the Budget. Hon. Members were standing up and saying that we need this period between now and the time the Budget is read. I do not know if any hon. Member here can stand up and tell us what his or her input is going to be between now and the time the Minister for Finance comes to read his Budget Speech here."
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