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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Laboso",
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        "legal_name": "Joyce Cherono Laboso",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. I want to agree with the two speakers that have contributed before me. I think this is a debating chamber for hon. Members and Motions are not binding, nobody --- We had a situation last week where we were telling hon. Members that they were the people who were in charge of budget; if they wanted to move a process to the next level, then they would have brought a Bill to the House and then go and negotiate with the Government. A Motion is partly to inform hon. Members. A lot of hon. Members do not know what ACP means; I am sure a lot of the hon. Members were going to the Committee were wondering what happens at the ACP. This is an opportunity for hon. Members to know some of the issues that are brought up in a Parliament that you are a member of. You are a Member of that House and as I have told you, even in the ACP, a lot of fears that people have had is that Parliaments are unaware of what happens in the executives in most times. That is why we come here and sometimes we look at comments such as, why we did not sign the Global Fund; what happened that we did not meet the requirements and we just wonder. This is because there is disconnect between what is going on in the Executive and what happens in this Parliament. This is an opportunity to bridge that gap and get informed on what is happening here. I am not speaking as the President of ACP, I am just speaking as a concerned Kenyan who wants that information for the hon. Members of this august House. So, yes, the Chairman of the Committee, you are the one who is going to have the opportunity to engage the Government and come up with information on the way forward. That does not stop hon. Members of this House from getting informed, participating and also expressing their views on the same. Thank you, hon. Speaker."
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