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    "speaker_name": "Mr. C. Kilonzo",
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        "legal_name": "Charles Mutavi Kilonzo",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if the CIOC was handling this matter we would not be having this problem. When the County Government Bill was on the Floor of this House last week and there was a proposed amendment which touches on this Report, the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee Members never showed up in the House. The only Member who showed up was Mrs. Odhiambo-Mabona and she could not even dare speak. So, this Parliament discussing those two reports would be discussing a matter which has been overtaken by events. The Bill on County Governments has put the limit of the county wards at 1,450. This Report proposes an increase. However, what is amazing is that it is as if the people who sit in this Committee are not even politicians. The Committee Members are lucky that we are not referring them to the Powers and Privileges Committee. If this Committee was courteous enough, they would have come when we were discussing the County Government Bill. Secondly, on the context, if you go to what is being said it appears the hon. Members assumed that this country has a Justice and Legal Affairs Committee to oversee this matter. I wish to plead with the Chair to give us time, so that this matter is discussed on another date."
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