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    "id": 244999,
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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Kituyi",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Trade and Industry",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mukhisa Kituyi",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I stand to seek guidance from the Chair. In the past, you have exhorted Ministers of Government to make their formal announcements of what work they are doing from the Floor of Parliament as partly a process that adds to the strength of this Legislature. I have adhered to this rather religiously beyond the minimum average of Ministers. In this light, I have been offering to make statements on the Floor of this House about progress in our efforts to turn around Uchumi Supermarkets Limited. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I promised this House last week before I left for Geneva that I will make such a statement again this week but in the intervening period there have been two things that I needed your guidance about. I remember on Tuesday you telling this House that House Committees invite Ministers to assist them in their investigations of matters. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you look at the back page of today's Daily Nation, the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade, hon. Dr. Oburu Odinga, purports to be summoning me to be investigated about Uchumi Supermarkets and in another newspaper the same hon. Oburu Odinga speaking at a funeral in South Nyanza, said that I have led to the collapse of Uchumi Supermarkets, Kenya Wines Agency Limited (KWAL) and Industrial and Commercial Development Corporation (ICDC). Mr. Speaker, Sir, I need your guidance on two different things. The first one is: How do you relate when a Minister has an undertaking to make a Ministerial Statement before the House and the Chair has asked that there will be enough time for hon. Members to deliberate what the Minister has said and at the same time a Departmental Committee wants him to make a similar statement to it? It is like competition between the Departmental Committee and the main House. Mr. Speaker, Sir, however, the second matter is: How do we deal with errant Members of Committees who go on ego trips about summoning and discuss Ministers at funerals about how they are going to deal with them in Parliament?"
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