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    "id": 372018,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Onyango",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Silvance Osele Onyango",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, Sir. I stand guided by your eyes as a counsel and that of senior hon. Members who have spoken before me. Hon. Speaker, Sir, I took a two-days off to go round this country and learn about how hon. Members are viewed by the public. The response was that, in as much as the public may appear to detest hon. Members, they are the people they like most and they know that we hold the key to their survival. That is for a fact and I realized it. Hon. Speaker, Sir, concerning the matter before us which is of great importance, I would like to say that, as it has been said, we are in a new system and it is us who are not used to it. As a house, our role is to legislate and we can even go to the extent of making laws that will make the systems that you want to work. But for the time being, there are certain things that I believe we can sort out without even going to bring a Bill to enact into law so that it works. You have been guiding us as the Chair on certain matters just as you have done to hon. David Ochieng. However, in as much as we would like to make the public believe that these committees are not powerful, these committees are really powerful. They have the status of the High Court during their sittings. What we need to do is to rationalize how and who is supposed to present himself and how the House is going to handle the matters that they bring. When we come before the House we need to reveal that “they came up with this matter, but as a Committee we interrogated the matter further and found out this or that.” That way, the House"
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