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    "id": 467371,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kembi-Gitura",
    "speaker_title": "July 25, 2013 SENATE DEBATES 17 The Deputy Speaker",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 242,
        "legal_name": "James Kembi Gitura",
        "slug": "kembi-gitura"
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    "content": " Sen. Murkomen, there is one thing I want to understand, if you allow me. Sen. Musila has sought a statement. You gave a verbal statement. Now, Sen. Billow has tried to clarify the statement that you gave. However, as far as I can see, you are continuing to give another statement. I want to know whether or not Sen. Musila should expect a written statement on a very important issue that he has raised. He is not talking about Kitui. He is talking about the provisions of the law; the Constitution and the law and how we should proceed with the 14 marginalised areas. He wants to know, if I got him right, what happens to Kitui which was cut off. Did it stop being a marginalised area because it fell on No.15 and the line was at No.14? I think, with a lot of respect to you and the Joint Committee that you and Sen. Billow are supposed to report on this issue. It is good practice, as the Speaker ruled, to have it in writing so that this House has ownership and gets to know what it is interrogating. I would like to ask you, Chairpersons of a Joint Committee, whether you are ready to give a written statement to Sen. Musila on the issue that he raised. I will not allow you, since you are not on a point of order, to continue to give a further statement on what Sen. Billow has given without a written document. I do not want any of you coming back to say that what the other Chair gave as a statement is not what they meant. You are co-Chairs and each one of you has to take responsibility. I would like to see a situation where this issue and future statements are in writing so that we interrogate the people responsible for the statements. My direction is that Sen. Musila has not got his statement. I want you to give us an indication of when the statement will be given to him in writing."
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