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    "content": "5. Sen. Aaron Cheruiyot; (c) that, the quorum of the Committee be the Chairperson and two other Senators; and, (e) that, the Committee considers the Bill and reports to the House on or before Tuesday, October 10th, 2017. Madam Temporary Speaker, I alluded earlier that this is a very important Bill. Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. has raised important issues and I concede that they are. You have also said that they are important only that he raised them early. This House recognises and respects Members when they become diligent and hardworking to come up with such Bills in the House. It must be remembered that this is a private Member’s Bill which has been brought here by Sen. Fatuma Adan Dullo. She is a distinguished lawyer, the elected Senator for Isiolo County and also, with great respect, the Deputy Majority Leader in this House. Madam Temporary Speaker, I have perused through the Bill – there will come a time when we will debate this Bill – and there are a lot of stories out there about this Bill which I want to clarify. First, I want to make it abundantly clear that we are disabled in this House in the manner in which we can consult with the Minority. Unfortunately, the Minority side does not have leadership, because we do not know who is the Minority or Deputy Minority Leader; neither do we know who is the Minority or Deputy Minority Whip. We assume or, as it is said in the corridors, that the Minority side are in such a fight over the leadership of their side to the extent that they are completely unable to agree on who will lead them. I have quipped elsewhere that if the Minority cannot even agree on the positions of House Leadership, what if they were in the Majority side? What if they had an opportunity to lead this country? Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to urge the Minority, especially Sen. Mutula Kilonzo (Jnr.), who is seated here; that instead of them lamenting over the absence of committee members in these Select Committees, they should meet urgently and agree on their leadership or, by way of consultation, write to us to add four Senators from the Minority side as required by law to make this Committee a nine-member committee. At any given time when they give us those names, we shall approve them and we can even amend the Motion today as it is still being debated. A Member can move an amendment to that Motion to add four Members from the Minority side. In fact, I dare say that if the four Senators who are seated in the House right now are interested in serving and making great contributions to their Republic, they can caucus quickly and come up with an amendment for us to include the four names of the Senators of the Minority side. This is because we want to have nine Senators sitting here to discuss this very important legislation. Unfortunately, sometimes the work of this House is disabled by persons sitting out there who have no role in this House. They are making it impossible for these hon. Members on the Minority side to represent their people from the counties they come from by sitting in these committees to make great contributions. Second, Madam Temporary Speaker, we must understand the seriousness of the fresh elections ordered by the Supreme Court of Kenya by a decision of the majority. Forget about the dissenting opinions of Justice (Prof.) J.B. Ojwang and Justice Njoki"
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