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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Francis Tom Joseph Kajwang’",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for Ruaraka",
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    "content": "will be so busy in Nairobi, you will not know what goes on in the village. By the time you wake up, there will be a better representation wanting to come on your behalf. Because the chairman’s position is so critical in the committee, we are proposing to make this chairman very accountable and responsible. We call it legislative responsibility of the chair to that committee. Because of that, we are proposing, as you will see here, that if you are a chair of a committee, you will not serve in another committee. You will not be a member of any other committee. You will only be a chair and a member of one committee. That must be very clear so that we do not have chairmen who are busy, or who have travelled abroad, or who are doing some other things. We want this House to move by way of the Bills. The third thing that will arise is that Members will only serve in two committees. The Committee on Selection will have an opportunity to see how to spread all the committees. Maybe, there will be a few slots which can remain for one or two Members but the principle, according to the Standing Orders, is that every Member will be entitled to two committees so that we can share this thing. This cake is big. I do not know why everybody is jostling for this or the other committee to the extent that Members are not speaking to each other just because of committees. There is also a proposal and we are very bold. Because we want to make chairmen responsible for their committees, we also want to make leaders, both in the House and elsewhere within parliamentary service, also accountable to the positions we give them. One specific one is the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC)."
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