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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A. B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. First, I want to say Happy New Year to all my colleagues as we come back to start the second last Session of the 11th Parliament that begins today. All of us are back. God is great because we have not lost anybody. I have not heard that any of us is in hospital and our families are well. I am sure there are a number of our colleagues who lost their close relatives and parents. We send our condolences to them and wish them well as they recover from that loss. As I support the amended Motion, this Committee is very important. It is the engine of the House. That is why today, this is the only agenda on the Order Paper. If the House agrees with this list, then the House Business Committee (HBC) will reconvene immediately to set the agenda for this week and, of course, the following weeks in its usual Tuesday meeting. Hon. Speaker, as we start the Fourth Session, it is good to start on a slate of efficiency and honesty. I want to go on the HANSARD saying that the Members of the Jubilee Coalition in the HBC were very active. They have been attending all the meetings and we have not replaced them. The Minority Whip has gone on record in the HANSARD. It is not good to smear the names of all the Members of Parliament or all the Members of the HBC. It is also very good to say that “I have replaced Hon. So and So because he was not attending the meetings”. Some colleagues from that side, like Hon. Makali Muli, have never missed even one meeting. They have not replaced him. When we remove people because they have not been attending meetings, it is very good to be very honest and say that Hon. Duale was removed because he was not attending the meetings. I will be very happy if, next time, the Minority Whip can say that he has replaced some Members, like Hon. Mwashetani, Hon. Ben Momanyi and Hon. Olum because of this and that. This is fair. We are dealing with Members of Parliament and not “other people”. We are going to reconstitute the Budget and Appropriations Committee, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and the Public Investments Committee (PIC) and we must, at all times, give very good reasons to the Members of this House who serve at the behest of the voters and the constituencies that they represent. This is a very important Motion. However, I want to tell Hon. Mwadeghu, a man I respect a lot, that if Hon. Olum, Hon. Mwashetani and Hon. Ben Momanyi were removed because they were not attending the Committee’s sittings, the register of the HBC must be in tandem with that. The Secretary General of Ford (K) can have his take. He does not need to be agitated. I have the Floor and it is a new beginning. I want him to lower his “temperature”. I want us to start 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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