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    "id": 359201,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kajwang",
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        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, this will help us to bring back what the minority and majority parties have to play within the watchdog committees. We have argued in terms of constitutional theory; statute law and even by way of precedent. Members of the public out there expect that all of us in this House will be watchdog to make sure that the resources of this country are taken care of. We will ensure that public officers do not abuse the offices that they are in and nobody steals public funds. Without Public Accounts Committee and Public Investments Committee properly constituted, we are unable to perform these functions. I want to urge my Members from the minority that this gives us an opportunity to be able to lead these two Houses with responsibility; responsibility to do that which Members of the public expect of us. I want to convince Members from the majority that you may have the numbers but the minority has to have a piece of their say in the discussions before this House. I want to ask all of us to come together and support this Motion unequivocally so that the business of this House may continue. Hon. Deputy Speaker, we have taken too long to proceed with the Motions of this House and this particular amendment will therefore enable this House to proceed. The divide that was artificial can now be broken down and we start looking at things as Members of the National Assembly and not Members of either majority or minority parties."
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