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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mulu",
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        "legal_name": "Benson Makali Mulu",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise to oppose this Motion. The reason is not the content, but the need to extend the time. I am one of the few Members who stood here to support this Motion. I said that this Committee needs to come up with a report so that Kenyans know the position of miraa . I have seen Kenyan ladies in Kitui Central constituencies demonstrate. It is the wearer of the shoe who knows where it pinches most. I said that it is on that basis that I was supporting the Motion. Now we are being asked to approve an extension. From the Mover’s information, they have done 70 per cent of the work in 90 days. This means that only 30 per cent is remaining. Now they are requesting us to add them 60 days to do the remaining 30 per cent of work. Mathematically, that does not make sense. It would make sense if they were asking for 30 days. I would have supported this Motion if the request was that this House extends the Select Committee’s working time by 30 days. It takes a Kenyan in the university doing postgraduate studies a short time to do a thesis and by that time the problem is not yet defined. One has to go and collect data and then analyse it and come up with conclusions. By the time this Committee went to the ground, their ToR were very clear. They knew their problem and now they are telling us that they need more days. Our work is to make sure that things are done correctly. This being an ad hoc committee, it ought to have taken its work seriously. I really do not see why as a House we are being asked to support this extension. On that basis, I categorically oppose this Motion."
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