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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Sungu",
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        "legal_name": "Gor Eric Sungu",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am very apologetic! I do get confused sometimes! I have only one thing that I want to ask of this Government. My colleagues have talked about the Government's agenda of having about 30 Bills. I have looked at the papers of the House and I have noticed that we have over 22 Bills which are outstanding. Most of them are waiting for the Third Reading in the Committee Stage. We have, on many occasions, been accused by the Press that, as hon. Members, we are not doing our work. Why can we not bring these issues to the Floor of the House so that we can finish with them? If we go home, we should do so when we have completed our work. What is this Government afraid of? Why is the Government afraid of its own Bills? For example, we have been waiting for the Government to bring the Anti-Money Laundering Bill, the Political Parties Bill, the Finance Bill and the Fiscal Management Bill, among others. What really affects me most is that this House granted me leave in the year 2003, to form a Committee, of which I had the honour of chairing, to investigate the death of the late Dr. Robert Ouko. The Committee sat for several years and even went to London at a great cost. I laid the Report of the Committee on the Table of this House in the year 2005. You know that some terrible people decided to take me to court because of that; for daring to table a Report of a Committee of this House. Apart from the issues of the privileges raised therein, I want to know from this Government why they do not want us to discuss this issue since 2005. We spent a lot of money. Do I have to go down on my knees for the Vice-President and Minister for Home Affairs, who is the Leader of Government Business and the Chairman of the House Business Committee to have this matter discussed on the Floor of this House? We know how Dr. Ouko was killed. We have a Report. This man was killed so cruelly and in 1990, I was not a Member of this Parliament. As a Member of Parliament, I dare say that the current leader of Government Business may have been a Member of Parliament at that time. Therefore, that guy was his colleague. It is a shame that we are not willing to face the truth and solve this issue once and for all. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am close to dying. People have called me names! The Press have called me names and imputed improper motive on my part. The members of the 3270 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES August 16, 2007 public have also inquired. My political opponents have said on radio that I have been bribed because this Report has not been discussed on the Floor of this House. What do I need to do for the Report to come to the Floor of this House? What did I do?"
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