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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gethenji",
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        "legal_name": "James Ndungu Gethenji",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. We are not only taken aback, but quite perplexed because the mandate of committees, treaties, agreements and bilateral and so on fall squarely under the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations. We have made several requests about this matter, for example, when we see the Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing dealing with bilateral agreements and so on. These agreements and bilateral treaties fall squarely under the Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations. Secondly, on defence and military matters - research within the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) or visiting forces in Kenya must appropriately be put under the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations. The matter should be placed before us for deliberation and participation. So, for this Report to have been taken to the Committee on Health and be tabled without the participation of the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations is irregular and we need your direction as we have requested in the past with regard to the mandate of committees, and specifically the mandate of bilateral agreements and treaties that are brought to this House."
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