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    "id": 459737,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Alouch",
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        "legal_name": "John Olago Aluoch",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, Sir, within the Standing Orders, and I will address my mind to it, clearly there is no provision that they must appear. But out of a sense of responsibility, there is no harm in asking a witness to appear. That is why in most committees we ask witnesses to come. When we suspect that the witness is going to be difficult, or may not be truthful, we say, let that witness give evidence on oath. Committees do that because they have the right and responsibility to swear witnesses. That applies to this report. If we feel that we are dealing with very grave issues, it would have been prudent that we have these persons to appear before us, we asses and cross-examine them. That way we would get to know exactly who they are and what they have to say. Hon. Speaker, Sir, I would like to caution the House that as we debate this Motion, let us understand that Kenyans for many years to come are going to make reference to what we are doing today. Let it be reasoned. Let it not be based on emotions, or the fact that the Commissioners refused to appear before the Committee. Let it not be based on the fact that some of the Commissioners are known to us, or they come from our constituencies or we share the same religion with them. Let us be dispassionate about this, so that we set a precedent that will be alive and valid 100 years to come. I am not scaring anybody. Thank you."
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