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"speaker_name": "Mr. George Nyamweya",
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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Perhaps, I will not go with either side. I thought we ought to be asking ourselves with the new Constitution what separates the Executive, the Judiciary and the Legislature. Yesterday we had an encounter with the Executive and it was not a very pleasant one. We said that as the legislature, we want our independence. Should we not be asking ourselves what our calendar is? Should we not be saying that Parliament sits from this time to this time and takes a break from here and the next one is this one or that one? Why must we try and convince each other that we need to go home or stay around when we purely know that there is no business that we are going to transact? What is the point of trying to convince each other? Should we not ask the Committee that sets the calendar of Parliament to set it out so that we plan our lives? To pretend that we are going home for the sake of our constituents or to do this and the other, that is not very helpful in my view. Perhaps, we can agree that --- I see we are still in the Fourth Session and nobody has seemed to worked out when there will be the Fifth Session or how we will end Parliament or who will dissolve it and when does it expire. I thought that might be a more useful thing for us, as the House, to deliberate on than trying to anticipate a Bill that is not even here! Why should we talk about the Finance Bill which is not here? Then we have our rules which say we should not anticipate debate. In my view, all of us have been engaging in some phantom because I have not seen that Bill. So, how do we talk about it? Mr. Speaker, Sir, may I persuade everybody that enough is enough. Let us go home and reflect on the New Year and how we will do these things. With that, I am persuaded to say, I support."
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