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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, having been forgiven, I would like to oppose this intention of the House Business Committee. Why? This is because the House Business Committee cannot move in contempt of the house. How on earth did they know that this morning, this House would move and approve their intentions? If they were not acting contemptuously, we would have seen on the Order Paper the business of the Private Members’ Bills and Motions that was due today. Then, we would have known that they respect this House and we would have said; let us humble ourselves; hon. Kimunya has convinced us; he is our colleague; he is our Minister and we love him and let us give him support. But because he is proceeding in contempt of the House, we cannot accept. I oppose with a second reason. I have a very important issue that was raised in this House about the ongoing audit of public monies. The Chair ruled that the Attorney-General should come here and tell us how before the expiry mandatory period of six months as contained in the Constitution of Kenya, the public funds that are being expended by the Auditor-General will be audited. The Attorney-General is not here. We do not know how they want to do it and we do not know how many billions will have been put to good use and how many hundreds of millions will have been misused. Therefore, I urge Members that we reject this particular Motion so that we give the Attorney-General time to come and tell Kenyans how the Office of the Auditor-General will be audited. Finally, there is a Bill which has gone through First Reading in this House entitled “The Electoral Opinion Poll Bill”. I am the author of that Bill. In the memorandum of objects and reasons, we are attempting through this Bill to make the political playground even. The Bill envisages that the electoral period is 12 months to the date of the election. So, this is one Bill which would have been helpful to the House, if we want peace to prevail in the country. We should have debated and passed it before we address other businesses that the Government wants. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I oppose and request hon. Members to weigh the evidence that I have tabled in this House."
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