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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ruto",
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    "content": "Parliamentary Committees are now being told that they cannot participate, or we cannot take time off to scrutinise the Bills; we can only come here and debate the Bills in a disjointed manner just because the Government wants to continue sleeping on its job. Is it fair for the Government to give Kenyans Bills of poor quality? The Government refused to bring the Bills to Parliament for Parliament to play its role of scrutinising them. I do not know whether this Government will want to seek re-election in the next six months on the basis that it will be sleeping on its job, and when they realise that there is a deadline to be beaten, they rush to Parliament. They pack all their cars within Parliament Buildings until there is nowhere to pass. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am sure that hon. Orengo will agree with me that this is not the best way to implement the Constitution. We have hardly eight months to go before the elections, although they also want to keep the election date as a secret weapon. No matter how things change, they remain the same. Only the other day, these same people were lambasting former President Moi for saying that the election date was a secret weapon. It is now being used as a secret weapon again. The Leader of Government Business should tell us what this is all about. Nevertheless, we will burn the midnight oil. We will not allow you to conspire in your boardrooms and make us pass half-baked Bills. We will stay awake all nights and try to do our best. However, we want to warn you that this is the last time we are going to allow you to indulge in this kind of laziness. With those remarks, I beg to reluctantly support the Motion."
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