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    "id": 675980,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, every Member belongs to a Departmental Committee. There is nothing that prevents you from making them function. If you look at the general mandate of Committees, nothing stops yours from requiring those responsible for making of regulations under any legislation to appear before your respective Committees and answer questions as to why nothing is being done with regard to promulgation or enactment of regulations. Even as you come to lament, remember the power is in your hand. Power is not with the Speaker. As you know, Article 122 of the Constitution says the Speaker has no vote. I see some of you make some funny statements out their requiring the Speaker to do this or the other. Please remember Article 122. The Speaker has no vote. Do not even ask the Speaker to stop a Committee from doing anything. That will amount to voting and yet, the Speaker has no vote. I generally advise, gratis, even those that are out there who may have forgotten that the new Constitution does not confer on the Speaker any voting right. So, the Speaker has no vote. Do not go to funerals and start urging the Speaker or me to stop this, do the other and so forth. I will not even feel urged, I will not be urged. Even if you urge me there, there is nothing I can do. I do not vote. You go into your Committee and do what you must do within it. The Member of Parliament for Seme Constituency, Hon. (Dr.) Nyikal."
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