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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kamanda",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Maina Kamanda",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. First, I want to thank the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, Hon. Chepkong’a. We were debating with him this afternoon on who will raise this matter, and I allowed him to do so. This is an issue that has happened many times. The Senate has duplicated the work of this House, not just the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing. They have duplicated the work of 23 committees that we have in this House and they do not even have enough members to sit on those committees. The most frustrated people are the Cabinet Secretaries (CSs). You will find that the issues that are being raised by the committees of this House are also raised by the Senate. On this matter, we started handling it as the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing of this House, and then the Senate also picked it up. It is only that we did not want Kenyans out there to see the two Houses of Parliament fighting. However, Hon. Speaker, this is an issue that we want you to use your wisdom and the law so that you can interpret the law to the Senate. On this matter, I have talked to the Cabinet Secretaries of the National Treasury and Transport and Infrastructure. Each time that they are supposed to appear before my committee, they are invited by the Senate. You find that they are in a very awkward position. I also want to support what Hon. Chepkong’a has said here. If they give that report, how will it be implemented? We want to be guided on this matter so that one committee of the House can be left alone to deliberate and come up with a concrete recommendation to this House."
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