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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kaluma",
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": "going into the substance and the very merits of discussions going on in a Committee of the House, he should be left to do so. Hon. Speaker, in my view, I would like to suggest that it is not just about Select Committees. Committees of this House are Parliament. When you stop Members of a Committee, by dint of the fact that any Member of Parliament can sit in those Committees, all hon. Members should be stopped. You engage in politics giving a lot of confidential information to the villagers who voted for you forgetting that you belong to a committee that is dealing with very deep issues of national importance. I would request that this is something that you can give directions based on the powers of the Standing Orders vested in your office. Hon. Speaker, I know your office is busy, but some Statements are coming to this Floor which should not be permitted at all, if there is proper scrutiny. Other agencies can deal with them thoroughly and in good time, otherwise we are competing. We are in a situation where we have the power to intervene on the Westgate Mall issue, but at what stage? We are now intervening at a time when we are going to question whether this was a terrorist or a civilian who died in the Westgate. We are here in a sitting very happy saying we want to deal with it. If we were to deal with it at the right stage, we would be asking for reports from various agencies with the requisite competencies to deal with the issue. How come we are not talking about generalities and policy directions, but instead we want to deal with those deep issues which we do not have competencies to handle? By the way, if we continue in the manner we are doing, we are going to be embarrassed constantly as national leadership. I beg to support."
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