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    "id": 745055,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wandayi",
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        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "worldwide. There is a further improvement that this time round there is a proposal to have majority of Members in those Committees to come from other parties other than those which have formed the Government. That is a big improvement. It is pointless to claim that the minority side is chairing a Committee, for instance, the Public Accounts Committee or the Public Investments Committee, while the membership of those committees come almost entirely from the Government side or the majority side. It defeats the purpose of those Committees being chaired by Members from the minority side. But having said so, I still believe there should have been further improvement. What do I mean? It is still not right that the Chairpersons of the Public Accounts Committee, the Public Investments Committee and the Committee on Implementation should come from the minority side and yet still, allow the entire membership of those committees to participate in the election of the Chairperson. I would have preferred a situation where the minority side nominates specific Members to chair those Committees. Those Committees play a very key role in oversight of the Executive. The minority has an idea of which of its Members has the capacity to chair those very key committees. If you leave the decision to an election in a normal manner, you subject those committees to a lot of probabilities. We have seen this happening in this House in the 11th Parliament where the majority side gang up and elect---"
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