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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wako",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Sitswila Wako",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me this opportunity. Indeed I support this Motion. I support it because when the Senator left rudely as some people say, the two who replaced him were actually holding the fort for him if he came back. He is just claiming what was his as a Senate Minority Leader because of his wisdom and his position in the party. This is just like the story of a Mzee in the Bible who left and gave one person ten talents and another person 20 talents. I believe that when Sen. Wetangula left, he gave Dr. Khalwale 10 talents and Kennedy another 10 talents and went away. Now that he has come back, I am glad that both Khalwale and Kennedy have doubled the ten talents to 20 talents. I think he is now telling them; “thank you very much for what you have done. You go, you have performed very well. I am now back.” I am not saying so because Sen. Khalwale is my muthoniwa . I am not saying so because he is my mukhwasi . I am saying so because as we are stationed here, both Sen. Khalwale and Kennedy are Senators who did a very good job. I am sure that Sen. Khalwale agrees with me that Sen. Moses Wetangula should go back to his job. I support his spirit in so doing because as we all know, he made a very spirited campaign, a vigorous one, for Sen. Wetangula to come back. If Sen. Khalwale was a person who was thinking about the position he had obtained in the Committee and if he thought that this man should not come back, he would not have gone there to campaign. I want to thank Sen. Khalwale for being public spirited. That brings me to what I am seeing here about membership of the Committees. It is true that the Committees must be composed of Members from various political parties depending on the strength and so on. At the beginning, depending on the strength, all the Chairpersons could be from the Government side. I want to thank the Jubilee Government for supporting me to be the Chairman of the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee. I can now see a new spirit emerging. This is a spirit that says, as we observe that rule; let us also look at the competence of the person to serve in a particular committee so that committees become effective in the performance of their functions. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as we all know, Parliaments all over the world are focused on doing their work at the committee level and not at the plenary. The way committees are appointed, the competence of each and every committee member on the subject matter becomes a very important issue. Therefore, I hope that Sen. Khalwale and Sen. Kennedy’s strengths and abilities and skills will not be wasted in one Committee. From what I hear, we will now not reject Sen. Khalwale because he is recognized as my"
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