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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Committee on Education, Science and Technology on Pension Dues to Retired Teachers among many others. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the House has also carried out its mandate of vetting and approving various nominees in accordance with the Constitution and Standing Orders. These include the Nominee for the Appointment of the Cabinet Secretary for Water and Irrigation, whom I joined this morning as the President administered the Oath of Office. We want to congratulate Hon. Wamalwa. Members can go and visit his office now that Parliament has approved and the President has administered the oath. We also dealt with the issue of the Secretary to the Cabinet, my very good friend Monicah Juma whose nomination was rejected. There was also the position of the Secretary to the Salaries and Remuneration Commission and finally the Chairperson, the Governor and Deputy Governor of Central Bank. Hon. Speaker, the House today also approved the appointment of five Members to a joint committee on the Presidential Memoranda on the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Bill and the Public Audit Bill. The task of the five Members is to convey and uphold the decision of the National Assembly. I have faith that my colleagues will do that. The National Assembly has disposed of those two Bills as per the Memoranda of the President. We waged a serious war on alcoholism. I commend my colleagues from Central Kenya. A time will come when you must stand up to be counted. You must save the community that you represent. I thank the President and the leadership of Central Kenya. I urge other citizens and leaders across the country that we must stand together in the war against illicit brews and drugs. We must guard ourselves from the destruction of both public and private property. As we proceed for recess, the people of northern Kenya, where I belong, are facing serious security challenges. We are facing the challenge of the invisible enemy; the war that the terrorists have been carrying on in our country. I am sure the Government of the day and the people of this country will unite across political, religious, ethnic and regional lines in the war against Al Shabaab. I am sure that the serious recommendation that the leadership of northern Kenya, under my leadership, gave to the President will be fulfilled; that the Muslim community and its leadership must be a very serious integral part in the war against violent extremism and AlShabaab . I also state that the House Business Committee (HBC) will give priority to various pending Sessional Papers and about 14 Bills awaiting the Committee of the whole House. To be given priority will be the Year 5 Constitutional Bills that have a deadline of 27th August 2015. Two of those constitutional Bills have already been received in my office and have been printed, assigned and are waiting for First Reading. These Bills are the Legal Aid Bill 2015 and the Controller of Budget Bill 2015, which are already within the precincts of the National Assembly. I hope that the Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee (CIOC) under the able leadership of Hon. Baiya will engage the Office of the Attorney-General, that of the Commission for the Implementation of the Constitution (CIC) and respective Government departments so that the rest of the remaining Bills are published and the National Assembly will have enough time to deal with them. A matter of great national importance is the Bill that concerns the two-thirds gender rule. I hope that the leaders across political divide will have a common ground in making sure that the Constitution is implemented and various articles are operationalised so that the women of Kenya will go home happy and that they will be proud of the men who are in the Executive, Judiciary and who serve in the Legislature. We have been counted on as fathers and husbands and I am sure that a time will come when the men of this House will enact the law before 27th August The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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