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    "id": 196714,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ethuro",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 158,
        "legal_name": "Ekwee David Ethuro",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, although I am inclined to oppose the Procedural Motion for reasons I will adduce to later, for the sake of the business of this House and for us to continue transacting business, I wish to appeal to the House to give the Minister one more chance to ensure that we have some business. However, ordinarily, the tendency for this kind of a Procedural Motion is when the responsible Ministry has something to hide. You have to be extremely careful, especially when you are dealing with accountants. These are professionals of figures. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in fact, where I come from, a former Member of this House used to say, \"Hawa wanaiba na kalamu.\" So, if, even the opportunity for us to read and scrutinise--- More fundamental is the fact that we are yet to establish Departmental Committees of this House. Democracy operates on the basis of Departmental Committees that will have an opportunity, unlike the plenary here, to consider each and every clause so that they make very sound and thorough recommendations to the House. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to believe that because we do not want Kenyans to think that we reconvened in order to go back and that we value our time in this House, through this Procedural Motion, we should allow this House to debate. This is because from 8th April, 2008 to 15th April, 2008, the Bill will qualify to appear before this House. However, let us drag on that Bill for a while."
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