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    "content": "county assembly. I urge the Members to support this Motion. I do not believe I should be belabouring the issues already covered in the report. The Committee did quite some detailed work. The able Chairperson of the Committee has taken the House through every piece of consideration the Committee went through to come to the conclusions and to recommend to the House as we have recommended. This is a matter that without much debate should go to question and we focus on the other Motions which are pending. We have to be serious as a House. On this one, I can state without being ashamed outside there that after the President, the Deputy President, the Speakers and the Deputy Speakers of the two Houses of Parliament, I wonder who this person is and which State office is that, that can be on top of the office of the Member of Parliament. I do not know which one it is. But to me, it confirms that, that is a Commission that is seated somewhere like an untrained butcher directing the knife without considering where the intestines are, where the skull is and where the limbs are. You have matumbo mixed up with beef and the tongue of an animal and served in one place. This is what this Commission has done. It is so arbitrary that in public law, we will consider it unreasonable in the sense that no reasonable commission sitting somewhere, given the considerations it has to go through, would come to such thinking. I urge the House to agree with the Committee and adopt the recommendations to enable us to go forward and deal with the matters that are more important to the nation. A thought is being peddled around that there is a heavy wage bill. I mean unconceivable thought is being driven into the minds of our people that the only way to deal with this wage bill is to single out an institution of all other institutions and say:- “This is the institution we have to deal with”. We have now to think seriously about the mandate, the structure and the composition of all the constitutional Commissions and offices. Let me give an example of one as I end, which is of concern to me. There is a Commission on Implementation of the Constitution (CIC) which has nine Commissioners. The entire nation does not know the membership of such commissions. The only person in that Commission that we see featuring and speaking on things he has not bothered to research on and he does not understand is the Chairman of that Commission. He will appear once in a month, talk to a matter he does not know and whatever he says will be contradicted. He does not bother to come back to explain his position and waits for the next one. We have nine Commissioners enjoying State facilities of the top most level, idling and doing nothing. I wonder why it would offend the nation if in reducing the wage bill, we went further after we pass this Motion and said that we want to reduce this number, possibly the Constitution would allow, to that one gentleman who makes noise on irrelevant issues and the Secretariat to do other things. There are Commissions all over, whose mandate in terms of functioning cannot be properly explained."
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