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    "id": 352138,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2884,
        "legal_name": "Alice Wambui Ng'ang'a",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, Sir, I would also like to say that I can see scrambling for Committees but what is important is one’s ability to perform. I can see a trend where Members scramble to be in very many Committees but they will not be able to deliver. Some of us who have been here for a while will attest to you that being in more than two Committees will be more than doing justice even to yourself. Even though you would like to appear “big” by your name appearing in almost every important Committee in the House, it is also important to worry about performance because by the end of the day we will realise that quorums are never realised in those Committees. This will affect the Committees. So, I urge my brothers, especially those who are in the Selection Committee, because I can see a trend where most of the Members we approved to serve in the Selection Committee have started putting their names in some of these Committees again--- That is not why we approved your names in those Committees, but we approved your names in those Committees to balance. This is a House of 349 Members and it is a record in itself. I am told that we are struggling even to get enough Committees for each one of us. So, if you will be in the Selection Committee and then you want to put your name in all the Committees, you will do injustice to yourself, injustice to this House and injustice to Kenyans at large."
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