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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute. Before I support the Motion, allow me to take one minute and make a correction of what I have seen on the front page of the Daily Nation today regarding why this House is asking the Procedure and House Rules Committee to increase the membership of committees from 17 to 19. The newspapers or at least the Daily Nation got it wrong. I want to say that we support the freedom of the media. I do not want to attack the Daily Nation. Probably, we did not explain the reason properly. Remember the membership of committees used to be 29 in the last Parliament, but we brought it down to 17. After calculations, we realised that a good number of Members of Parliament will sit in two committees, but another good number will sit in only one committee. That will create a problem to the leadership, especially the Whips where some Members find themselves in two committees and others find themselves in one committee. It will create a class system in the House. Some Members may even blame the leadership for discriminating against them. That is the sole reason. It has nothing to do with extra allowances for Members of Parliament. If anything, the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) capped allowances of Members of Parliament who are sitting in committees to seek allowances to utmost 16 sittings in a month. Even if you have one committee, you will most likely sit 16 times in a month. So, my friends in the Nation Media and a good friend of mine, Mr. Ngirachu, got it wrong on that. I wish he called me for clarification. I wanted to clarify that."
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