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    "id": 619555,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion:- THAT, pursuant to Standing Order No. 28, this House approves the Calendar of the House (Regular Sessions) for the Fourth Session of the Assembly, as contained in the Schedule attached to the Order Paper. At the back of the Order Paper, which every Member of this House must be having a copy, there is a calendar of the National Assembly which, according to the Standing Orders, must be approved. It contains the sitting days, short recess and long recess throughout the year between today, if you approve, until December. The approval of this calendar is one of the gains of the new Constitution. When I was a young man in primary and secondary school, I remember that the former President - and there were many but in this case Baba Nyayo - used to dissolve and send the House home anytime he felt Members had misbehaved. I am sure on Tuesday, when the House rejected the formation of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, if Mzee Moi was in power, he would have dissolved the House the following day and sent us on a two-month recess. It is the men and women in this House who make the calendar. I am sure that the House Business Committee (HBC), in consultation with the Clerk’s Office and all the directors of the various departments under the leadership of our Speaker, presented this calendar to the HBC on Tuesday. We felt that it is in order. The HBC has approved the calendar. I urge our colleagues to please have this calendar pinned at the best parts of their offices so that they can be referring to it. You can programme yourself on how to attend to constituency work and other commitments based on this calendar. You will know, for example, that between March 25th and 4th April this year, we will have a short recess."
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