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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Musyimi",
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        "legal_name": "Mutava Musyimi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. The sympathy of the Speaker is very powerful, it has the weight of law. On a more serious note, the truth of the matter is that the House is going to be adjourned next week sine die . There are only four sittings remaining, that is, on Tuesday afternoon, Wednesday morning and afternoon and then Thursday afternoon. The challenge which is before my Committee and all of us is that the law is in place as you have rightly said but the fact is we have the General Election on 8th August this year. You and I know that I can never bring an amendment of this import without your authorisation. The reason we seek your authorisation to invoke your powers is because we are where we are, a week before the 11th Parliament is dissolved, so to speak, in practical terms. It does not get dissolved until the day of the elections. Perhaps, you could guide me. I am sorry to have to play the ball back to your side. I know no other way of dealing with this problem where ballot papers need to be printed before 30th June 2017. The law is as you have put it. The reality is as we all know. It is back to your discretion, Hon. Speaker. With respect to the Kshs300 million, it is the position of my Committee that any time the National Intelligence Service have come to us for money, we have never said no even when we had questions. This is because we never want to be seen to be the ones who may have allowed or facilitated something sinister to happen because we said no to a request from the NIS. That is why we say that we need a number of Members of Parliament vetted in the next Parliament. The law is in place so that they can be part of those confidential conversations by the national Executive. The representatives of the people must be around the table where confidential matters of this nature are discussed. That is the spirit of the new Constitution. Thank you for approving this proposal. I am very sympathetic to the sentiments of the honourable Members. There is nothing fraudulent about this. Those that are using those words are being a little less than kind. There is nothing fraudulent. We have been approached. With four days to go, if my colleagues were seated where I am seated today, I do not know what they would have done in the national interest. I bring this in the national interest. There is nothing personal here in any way."
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