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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Dawood",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abdul Rahim Dawood",
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    "content": "The petition which I had brought to this House was for compensation of a police officer who was killed.The court had ordered for the compensation but it has not come through for the last seven or eight years. I brought this petition twice initially. I was told it was the Administration and National Security Committee that was concerned but the Chairman did not get it. Then I was directed by the Director of Committees to the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee. The Justice and Legal Affairs Committee has never called. I have spoken to the Chairman of the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee, hon. Chepkong’a and to date, nothing has happened. The person on whose behalf I was putting this petition has asked me to withdraw it because Parliament could not do anything and he has already managed to do something about it from elsewhere. I feel helpless because I and the person have never been asked to appear before the Committee. It has been going round and we do not know anything about it. It is not just this Mr. Speaker. In 2013, with regard to my Motion on health, I was taken round. I was told it was in the Budget and Appropriations Committee and when I spoke to the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, it was not there today or this week. Last week, I gave a notice but it has not even gone to your office. I have checked in your office and it is nowhere to be found. It is like animal farm here. Some animals are more equal than others. I feel it is not right because it has been happening from 2013. In 2013 I presented a notice of Motion and in 2014 it was on the Order Paper. Now I am told it is going to the Budget and Appropriations Committee again. It was on the Order Paper in the last Session and now it cannot even be found. I gave a notice of Motion last week. I complained to the Deputy Speaker, hon. Joyce Laboso and she told me it would be there. Today I checked but it has not even gone to your office. It is nowhere to be found. I want to withdraw this petition because I feel it is not going to serve any purpose now."
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