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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, I thank you for giving me the opportunity to support the Motion. However, I want to repeat a concern that I raised here yesterday. This is a good Committee, and I have no problem with it at all. The problem I am seeing is that there are names which appear in every Committee established by this House. This is not good for the membership of this House. I do not want to name names but there is already a name that I have seen on three committees out of the four or five committees that we have established. I do not belong to the Jubilee side of the Government, but during the campaigns they talked of being a digital generation. I want to offer myself as a distinguished engineer in this country, to do a visual basic code for them, so that they can keep track of how many members are going into which committees, because it is not looking good so far. We are going to ruin the quality that we want to get from these Committees, because people are just going into committees just for the sake of it. We want quality. This House has become a House of assessment – a House of looking at how things are being done or how we are conducting business. When people offer to go into three committees after only five committees have been established, are they offering to serve the country or are they merely offering to appear in committees? Hon. Deputy Speaker, I support the Motion reluctantly and urge the Leader of the Majority Party, who is my friend, and Members of the House Business Committee to, please, look into this matter. All the hon. Members in this House are equal to the task. We should not form the habit of going back to Animal Farm, where some animals tend to be more equal than others. We are all equal. All of us have qualifications and we want to also give service to the country. With those remarks, I very reluctantly support."
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