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    "id": 374432,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Okoth",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Kenneth Odhiambo Okoth",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, for allowing me this quick intervention. I actually thought and felt strongly to rise in support of the point you have made. This matter has been coming up many times. I am very sensitive to it because we move Motions to urge the Government to do certain things yet we know that we are part of the Government, and an important branch of the Government for that matter. Therefore, we must do our job. The action is actually in the Committee sessions in this new dispensation. So, I call upon all Members of Parliament to take the Committees seriously. Hon. Members should show up and do business. Hon. Speaker, I would like to acknowledge the fact that the Departmental Committee on Lands is doing a very good job. I sought a Statement here in the recent past and, subsequently, attended a session of the Committee, to which the Cabinet Secretary was summoned to attend. I got the answers I needed and the process is now moving. So, please, let us take the Departmental Committees seriously. I stand here as a law maker. Outside this building, I am a law abiding citizen. When Parliamentary Committees sit, they have authority equivalent to that of the High Court of Kenya. So, please, do your job. If you summon people, please, show up."
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