{"id":353573,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/353573/?format=json","text_counter":152,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Ganya","speaker_title":"The Member for North Horr","speaker":{"id":18,"legal_name":"Francis Chachu Ganya","slug":"francis-ganya"},"content":" Hon. Speaker, Sir, I also want to congratulate you on your election as the Speaker of this Eleventh Parliament. I want to support this Motion; I want to do so because there is a major reform as far as our Standing Orders are concerned. I served in the Tenth Parliament; I recall that at that time being appointed to a Committee was basically at the mercy of the whip; the names appeared at the House Business Committee (HBC) and eventually ended up here. I recall that when at the time a member of the Pentagon of a party, a deputy leader of that party, was rejected, together with some of us, because he did not tow the party line at the time; you were at the mercy of an individual called the whip. Now, we have a Selection Committee, an organ of this House, which will debate and pick Members on their merits to respective Committees."}