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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "I will give hon. Njenga a chance to make his intervention. Hon. Members, it is fair to appreciate. I am aware that many Committees have applied to me for leave to sit at various hours this morning and in the afternoon, but I have taken the liberty to refuse to approve those requests because when a Committee meets to deliberate on a matter, it has to bring a report to the plenary. Before that report comes to the plenary, it passes through the HBC for prioritisation. So, if we do not have a HBC, of what use is it for other Committees to sit? I have taken the liberty not to approve those requests because I am guided by the fact that the HBC shall be appointed within seven days on assembly. So, starting yesterday, we have a maximum of seven days within which to form or appoint this Committee. In the meantime, I am open to all manner of requests for consultations but Committees, be advised. The Director of Committees has been instructed accordingly not to allow any Committee and all rooms where Committees are supposed to meet have been locked until we deal with the issue of the HBC. It is not good for you to meet to spend taxpayers’ money out there listening to witnesses and others when you will have nowhere to take your report to. It means there is a possibility that whatever you are doing there will be an exercise in futility. Let us hear hon. Njenga."
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