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"content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker for giving me this chance to contribute to this Motion. I congratulate hon. Joel Onyancha for being selected to serve on the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations, and also on Public Accounts Committee; so is his colleague, hon. Tongi, who is to serve on the Committee on Energy, Communications and Information. In as much as Members of Parliament are selected to join various committees, I believe we are not taking our work seriously. That is why I support the move you are making, as the Speaker of this august House, to have Cabinet Secretaries appear in this Parliament, so that we can direct questions to them and they answer them. Departmental Committees Chairmen and Chairwomen are, really letting down this 11th Parliament. Many of them are not taking their work seriously. In fact, I do not know what to call it, but you take notice. I do not want to call it “judicial notice”, but take note that the Front Benches, where these Chairmen should be seated, are always empty. When questions are directed to those Chairpersons, they are nowhere to be seen. When shall they ever be seen to be working? With a lot of respect, I do not want them to take us back. There was a question that was raised by my very good friend, hon. (Dr.) Ottichilo, on the matter of San Marco Space Station in Malindi. That question was again raised by that hon. Member sometime in the last Session. Indeed, in your wisdom, which we respect, you ruled that the Committee on Energy, Communications and Information and the Committee on Education, Research and Technology, should find time, sit down, discuss this matter and report back to this House whether to adopt the report that was tabled in the 10th Parliament or to discuss the matter afresh. With a lot of respect to those two committees - I belong to the Committee on Education, Research and Technology - we have not met. Time and again, we have pushed the Chairs in those two committees to give direction and offer leadership, so that we can meet. I am aware that hon. (Dr.) Ottichilo has taken time and trouble to get permission from our committee. We selected a certain group of people to go to Malindi, for purposes of revisiting the site and seeing what is on the ground, but the leadership of the Committee on Education, Research and Technology has done nothing about it. That is why I believe, again, that matter has been too itchy on hon. Ottichilo; he has had to come back to you and ask the question again. I am happy, because you have seen that this is a report that cannot go to waste. This is a report on which a lot of public money was expended. You have, again wisely, ruled that the report be tabled without us having to go there. This is because we are wasting time. We are not doing our work in that committee as we should. 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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