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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Wafula, as you know, we have allocation to express ourselves about the process of Statements and so on. I have sympathy to both you and the Committee Chairperson. The Chairperson is not the repository of the information that you are seeking, yet I appreciate that it is absolutely necessary, in terms of Article 95(1) for you to have this information for the benefit of the people you represent. That is why I have been saying that we need to come up with innovative ways of ensuring that a mechanism is put in place for this House to interrogate in plenary the repositories of this information. The Committee Chairman is asking for a month. I am sure that if you go back to the constituency, your constituents will not understand if you tell them that the Statement is with a Committee. They will ask: “What is a Committee? We thought you were going to ask the Government.” So, it is a very big challenge, especially for elected Members. The people you represent here will not understand you if you tell them that a matter that concerns them is with a Committee. They will say: “But the Committee is not the Government. We thought that it is the Government which has this information.” It is a big challenge but I hope that we are all thinking actively about this matter, so that when we come up with proposals sooner than later, we will be able to address the situation to some finality. So, let us allow the Committee Chairman the time that he has pleaded for and hope that he will get a report that will satisfy not just hon. Wafula but other Members, The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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