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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Musyoka",
    "speaker_title": "The Vice-President and Minister for Home Affairs",
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka",
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    "content": " Thank you for your protection. I was just in the middle of responding to these issues. If there is need, for instance, I cannot pretend that I can take the decision on behalf of the House Business Committee. I can see the hon. Member for Ikolomani listening to me very carefully because should I, for instance, take a decision here on his behalf, that will be improper. I have said that we will meet on Tuesday at the rise of the House and be able to take into account the sentiments that have been expressed in this House this afternoon. So, let us all agree that we need to get this Committee functioning. I, therefore, think it has been improper that we have had the work of the Committee which, in accordance with the Standing Orders, is a very important Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs---. This is a Committee that should set the example in terms of making sure that we are all facing justice, and the all important matter of implementing our new Constitution. Therefore, as to whether to disband or not to disband in accordance with the suggestion by the hon. Member for Gwassi, I cannot talk about it now. Indeed, we will have to look at it, if it is within the powers of the House Business Committee to disband the Committee. In the first instance, that is what the Member for Chepalungu was questioning because it had erroneously been suggested that the House Business Committee had disbanded this Committee and yet it was not within our mandate. We will report progress because it is important. I urge that all of us belong to political parties. We went with the joint whips to try and see whether we could talk as such because the reality of the current arrangement is that we have a Grand Coalition Government. We also took a decision that we will not disband any of the Committees. The Committees will continue until this House is dissolved. I do not know if it is by operation of the law. I think even His Excellence the President has got those powers saved under the Constitution. So, I think he can still dissolve this Parliament, if I can correct myself. I would like the House to take me very seriously that we would like to deal with this matter decisively on Tuesday so that this Committee can become operational again."
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