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    "content": "If the Committee has not been getting responses from the Chairman of the Commission, why has this not been reported to this House, so that we know what steps to take? It is an open secret that the Nyachae Commission wants to have its time extended, so that they can be in office for as long as it takes for them to continue earning salaries. For the CIC, it is a matter of earning salaries. For us, it is a matter of enhancing the business of implementing the Constitution. So, it is important that CIOC does not sleep on its job. I can see that my very good friend is here. I do not want to say that he is the one who is sleeping on the job because I know that he is awake all the time. But there is need for CIOC to report to the House and tell us exactly why CIC, which seems to have an opinion on everything else in this country, cannot give us a Media Bill that we can look at and pass. Hon. Speaker, I am doing this reluctantly because I feel that I am not able to do my work within the constitutional timelines. It is not because I am unable to do so but rather, because someone else who wants to be relevant and outlive his time is trying to make my work very difficult. So, although I support the Motion, so that we can deal with this issue, even if we extend the time by a period of four months, if the CIOC does not reign in CIC to do their work; and if we do not have a working timetable in the way it was done during the Tenth Parliament so that within a week, we know that we will have the Bill, we will come here and still have no Bill to legislate on. The Constitution says that we can extend the legislation deadline for any Bill only once. We cannot do it a second time."
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