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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kajuju",
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        "legal_name": "Florence Kajuju",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I know that this is a Select Committee and that is why we were told also that we could not vet the Principal Secretary for East African Affairs. I then forced myself into the vetting process through the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations. However, this is just a concern that Members are expressing and I think it is right for Members to express a concern that they have in the Committee. It is worth to note that you are the boss in this Chamber. So, we are just talking to you as your children. But we have the capacity and the capability to force our way into situations that might not even be very interesting or comfortable to persons who are working within this institution. So, that is an issue that has been raised. We are going to sit down - I believe with the management of this establishment - and sort it out, even if it means summoning persons, which we have done. We have summoned the East African Affairs, Commerce and Tourism Cabinet Secretary. She has undertaken to rectify situations that were not comfortable with us but we are waiting to see if that will be done. Hon. Speaker, another point is that we have raised issues of conflicts between roles of committees. Actually, I have raised that with my Chair in the Liaison Committee and we formed a small sub-committee that is looking at issues of conflict of roles and mandates between committees. That is because there have been situations where we have had to share roles with the Departmental Committee on Finance, Trade and Planning and the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations. We understand those situations will keep on recurring. However, when correspondence come that belong to the Committee on Regional Integration, then we expect that correspondence must be channeled to the right committee without necessarily people raising issues as to why it has not come to the right committee. Thank you, hon. Speaker."
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