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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Manje",
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Wathigo Manje",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, for giving me this chance. I want to take this opportunity also to support the Motion, maybe with amendments, if possible. I found that when you get little time, it is not enough for you to express yourself. In a previous sitting, we reduced the time to one minute. If you are given one minute to articulate what you have researched for quite a long time, that becomes very unfair to you. I thought it could have been better, just as the way the Member from Mbeere had said, for the Mover to get at least 10 minutes and the others five minutes. When one is given less than five minutes, it becomes irrelevant; it becomes a Motion that one does not get enough time to articulate his arguments on. Hon. Speaker, this is a House of records and what we say here is normally stored for posterity. If you are not given enough time--- For example, if you stand and the microphone goes off, then it means your views will not be captured. We want to offer very good and serious debates in these sittings. I know very well that this is an information age, where we usually go to the internet and engage people to get a lot of information. It can only be fair if we come to this House and we are given time to articulate issues. I would also request that, in the management of House debates, everyone be given equal chance to participate, so that other Members also can be heard. We can change debates in this House if new Members are given chances as opposed to where maybe it is only the Leader of the Majority Party or Leader of the Minority Party and others who are given opportunities. We want all of us to be heard, so that we can change conditions in this country. Thank you, hon. Speaker."
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