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"content": "During the second part of the Third Session of the National Assembly, we have passed several Bills, including the Finance Bill, 2015, which was passed a few minutes ago; the Companies and Insolvency Legislation (Consequential Amendments) Bill, 2015, which we passed in the morning; the Companies Bill, the Insolvency Bill, 2015; the Business Registration Bill, the Special Economic Zones Bill, and the Presidential Memoranda on Ethics and Anti- Corruption, among many other public and private Bills. We have debated several Committee Reports, key among them the Report of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on the hire of an aircraft for the Deputy President for a tour of four African nations in May 2013; the Report of the Departmental Committee on Lands on land issues in Taita-Taveta County, and the Report of the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing on the conventions on suppression of unlawful acts relating to the International Civil Aviation and the protocol it covers. When we resume from recess, the House Business Committee (HBC) will give priority to all the Bills with constitutional deadlines that have been published and read the First Time. We will also give priority to the consideration of the Health Bill, the Fisheries and Management Coordination Bill, 2014; the Roads Bill and Bills that have emanated from the Senate. The House will also consider the Report of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries on the crisis facing the sugar industry in Kenya. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the hon. Members for their invaluable time. I would also like to thank the Office of the Clerk and the Office of the Speaker for the invaluable contribution they have made to our success this session. I would also like to thank the Leader of the Minority Party, the Minority Whips, the Majority Whips and my deputy for their invaluable contribution during this period. I hope the break will enable us go back to our constituencies, bond with our families and, above all, make sure that Kenyans achieve the objectives for which this House appropriated monies through the Budget. Finally, I ask my colleagues from the CORD Coalition to talk to their leader, who is planning to take me to court. Hon. Raila wants to become the President, and I being a serious leader from northern Kenya, it is not good for him to take me to court. I do not want either of us to be chased into the toilets like it happened to Hon. Khalwale when he was chased by supporters of the Governor of Nairobi. I want us to settle our business outside court. I am sure Hon. Mbadi, the Chairman of ODM and Hon. Junet, as a serious Luo leader from Migori and a stakeholder and a close ally of my former leader, will talk to each other with Hon. Millie Odhiambo so that, when we come back, the case is withdrawn. But for now, I have no choice. I have looked for one of the best lawyers in town Mr. Ahmednassir Abdullahi to represent me in the case. I want to assure them that I will never go to court because I might suffer the fate Sen. Bonny Khalwale suffered. In my community, if you are chased into a toilet, it is like resigning from my seat. I beg to move and wish all of us a happy recess in the month of September."
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