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    "id": 617350,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I take this opportunity to wish you and my colleagues, the Hon. Members, a very happy and prosperous New Year. We canvassed some of the issues that Hon. Duale has spoken about in our Parliamentary Group (PG). I am not purporting to speak for our Acting Leader of the Minority Party, but some of these Members actually asked to be discharged from these Committees due to personal commitments. I am sure Hon. Mwadeghu will explain. As we constitute the HBC, which sets the agenda for Parliament, I congratulate the Members who have been appointed to the Committee. However, I have a request. Many Committees, including mine, have been tabling special Reports of Committees, which in my view address urgent matters that affect the people of Kenya. For example, we have before this House a Special Report on the Judiciary. There are many more that are going to come. Last year, there was also a Special Report by the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Co-operatives on the sugar sector, which affects a lot of us who come from the sugar belt. I would like to request the HBC, as it convenes, to give priority to the special reports because these things have a direct impact on the people we represent. It does not make sense for public money to be used on special reports only for them to be brought here, are delayed and the House does not make a decision on them. Hon. Speaker, I would like to make a request particularly with regard to the Report on the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) and the Report on the sugar sector. Could we kindly give them the first priority as the Committee gets down to business, so that we can debate and the House makes a decision on them? Otherwise, I thank you."
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