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    "content": "particular Committee and the Committee will do public hearings, that is in compliance with the Constitution and that has been happening. We need to look for a way of ensuring that within the periods that we give ourselves in the Standing Orders, Committees submit reports. It is not an academic exercise, that requirement for Committee reports. I agree with you; Committee reports help hon. Members who are keen. Of course I appreciate that hon. Members represent their constituents in various ways. There are those who do so by participating actively in the passage of laws, in over- sighting, in asking questions and also going to offices to seek favours. Those are all forms and modes of representation. There could be hon. Members who may not be in the House but they are very busy representing their constituents in various offices outside of the House, which is true. It is natural. Kenyans must know that. In fact, it is one of the issues which are terribly misunderstood when people look at the Chamber, they fail to appreciate that when an hon. Member goes to their constituency on a weekend, he finds a myriad of requests: “We want this one to be paid his pension. He has not been paid for so many years. This one has passed on. This one requires their title deed”. Hon. Ngunjiri wants to chase the title deed for his constituents of Bahati where it will not happen in the plenary here. It means that he has to go to where title deeds are printed. I do not know where they are currently. Your constituent wants a pensioner to be paid their pension dues. They even want others to be transferred on the basis that they are sickly wherever they will be stationed and all manner of requests. Those things will not be done here in the plenary. That is one thing that Kenyans need to understand. So, I appreciate that there are hon. Members who are very good and may be they get re-elected severally because of doing it out there and not necessarily here. Therefore, I want to appreciate those many ways of representing. Hon. Ngunjiri is pointing at himself saying that he has just come from doing that but he has now come to participate in law making."
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