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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ethuro",
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        "legal_name": "Ekwee David Ethuro",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Chairman, Sir, for officially allowing me to distract him and not informally. I have just seen the proposals brought by the Chairman of the Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations. I could not agree more with Mr. Kimunya. I wish to apologize to him for some thoughts I had entertained, and for being a State apologist but I have appreciated him. First, we are trying to realign these to the constitutional requirements. We are alive to the fact that the number of Ministries will also be reduced. The other consideration is that this will be a large House. So, if you amalgamate these committees into one, then that particular committee cannot transact the business that you have given it in terms of providing oversight of the line Ministries and the constitutional obligations. So, I really want to plead with Mr. Keynan and the rest of the membership that I have actually clarified and not clouded any minds. I am glad that the hon. Member for Kipiriri can confirm that. I now appreciate that at least on this one, we have intelligence which is not the one of the Senate. We can live with it; Maj-Gen. Nkaisserry knows that we are leaving it to the National Assembly. But for Home Affairs, the proposal is that we put it under Administration and National Security. This is not even the Constitution he is running away from. He is still living in the past of a Provincial Administration where the District Commissioner (DC) was an administrator as well as the chairman of the security committee. I want my good friend to smell the new Constitution that has separated these functions and really persuade him that we have taken into consideration all the things he is saying. We have already acceded, against my good counsel, on the Joint Committees. Surely, he should leave us with these ones."
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