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    "id": 250154,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Awori",
    "speaker_title": "The Vice-President and Minister for Home Affairs",
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        "legal_name": "Moody Arthur Awori",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move:- THAT, the House do now adjourn until Tuesday, 30th May, 2006, at 2.30 p.m. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is a procedural Motion which seeks that we have a few weeks back in our various constituencies before the Minister for Finance reads the Budget in this House. We have had very lively debates, where a lot of very important matters have been transacted, the last one being the Sexual Offences Bill. While it might have started on a wrong footing, at the end of it, hon. Members stood up against sexual offences in this country. I am sure that when we return from recess, we shall be able to have a Bill that will stand the test of time. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we still have got a lot of very important Bills that we need to transact when we return and I would like to request my colleagues that during the recess they use that time to read those Bills carefully. There are Bills on HIV/AIDS, Maritime, NSSF, Wildlife and Banking, which we must conclude. I think it is right that we should use the opportunity when we are out there to read them. It is also important that we should go on recess because from this evening or tomorrow, we are beginning to have visitors who are Members of Parliaments from about 140 countries. I understand that there will be more than 1,500 of them here. The leader of our delegation happens to be the Deputy Speaker, and the chairman of the conference is the Speaker himself, and all his staff are going to be away in fact from tomorrow. So, really, there would be no point in having sessions when we do not have the HANSARD staff. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to appeal to my colleagues, the Ministers, to utilise this opportunity to socialise with Back-benchers so that at least they can acquaint them with the Bills that are forthcoming, so that there is an understanding between them and then we can move things ahead. We are still very much behind with the Bills. In fact, there is a Bill that I had hoped to have finished and it could have been the first one. This is the Cotton (Amendment) Bill. This year we need to at least improve on our record so that we have at least 15 or 20 Bills passed. With those few remarks, I beg to move."
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