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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Dache",
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        "legal_name": "John Dache Pesa",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me time to air my views on this particular Motion. I stand here to oppose it because I am not convinced by the reasons we have been given to adjourn this House. Judging from the mood of the people who elected us, I think we have been home too often. We have a duty to perform in this House. Going home again for another one month is not going to be very good for Kenyans who elected us. When we talk about tradition, we should be specific. When we say that we have been adjourning before the Budget is read, does that mean that we have to adjourn for one month? Why not for one week or a few days? We have been told that we have to go home and supervise some committees that are doing certain jobs like the CDF, the bursary committees and the rest. I want to challenge the Government side that the deadline for the constitution of the CDF committees was 15th March, 2008. I am sure that most hon. Members have constituted those committees. Although that was done, the CDF committees have not been gazetted and, therefore, they are working illegally. How can we be told to go and supervise people who have been put in place to work for this country? In fact, I would have been happy if we were told to go home and supervise the committees, if our CDF cheques had been posted to our constituencies. Probably then, one would say that we have some work to do. The work we are being told to go and do is being done by the committees we have appointed. I feel that, for us to have some credibility in this House, we must disregard the traditions that have made former Parliaments unpopular in the eyes of Kenyans. We should continue sitting up to the time that the Budget will be read. I oppose."
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