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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "She will be Member for Suba North from next year, but for this year she is the Member for Mbita. That is if she wins, and chances are that she may. Hon. Speaker, I am taken aback because I thought the convening of this Special Sitting was occasioned by a request from the Hon. Leader of the Majority Party. Therefore, I thought that the agenda for the Sitting was also from him. So, if this Motion No. 10 found its way to the Order Paper on a Special Sitting, I thought that this was after some consideration. However, it baffles me that the Hon. Leader of the Majority Party was not even aware that this matter should come. Therefore, it means it was not a matter that was urgent that should have been transacted through a Special Sitting of Parliament. Hon. Speaker, I also agree with Hon. Jakoyo. I do not understand how matters that affect foreign and international relations would be handled by the Departmental Committee on Health. If there is an input that would be required from that Committee, it should be a joint committee sitting because I expect the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations, which deals with our international relations, and more particularly such important treaties, to also be involved. Otherwise, I agree with my colleagues that if we transact this Motion, chances are that we may do something that this House should not do for the benefit of the country."
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