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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Onyonka",
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        "legal_name": "Richard Momoima Onyonka",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, Sir, there is an issue that I would like to raise with you. For the last two or three days, we have been having elections for committees in the House. This is a matter that I raised briefly with the Clerk of the National Assembly. Yesterday, I was communicating with the Office of the Clerk as to the modalities of holding the elections. On my phone, I received correspondence from the Office of the Clerk which was asking me to be here on Tuesday morning so that we could hold elections for the Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations. I got that message on Friday. That made me to plan my visit to my constituency, Kitutu Chache South. I visited my constituency and, as a result, when I came this morning, I found that the elections were held yesterday and nobody had called to inform me that the elections were going to take place. The only information I was given was that there was enough quorum for the elections to proceed. I feel that my rights were violated by me not being given due respect and due accordance like all the other Members of the House who are my colleagues, so that I could have fought for a fair chance of getting the Chairperson of the Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations. Hon. Speaker, Sir, I would like you, with due respect, to make a ruling on that matter. You can authorize us to have a re-election. You can cancel that election and give us another date to conduct the exercise."
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