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    "id": 770209,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "we are balancing another interest. The interest we are balancing is that we do not want to have too large committees which become difficult to manage. As I conclude, with these reduced numbers of committees where Members would end up with not more than two committees, I hope that commitment to committees is going to be different. In the last Parliament it was a big shame when Accounting Officers appeared before them but they could not raise quorum and they had to go back. I hope it is not going to happen again. It is not only the watchdog committees but even the ones dealing with other matters, the fact that you have called Members for a meeting they should be there on time so that they transact the business that was scheduled. My final comment is that I agree entirely that those Members who will be lucky enough to sit in PSC should let other Members sit in other committees because that Commission is in itself a Parliament. You can see the kind of competition we have in PSC. This is another thing that surprises me because up to the 10th Parliament, Members did not want to sit in PSC. I do not know the madness that came with the 11th Parliament. Hon. Speaker, you are also the Chairman of PSC and whatever it is in that Commission that is making people struggle to come there, you will one day whisper it to me. Maybe it is just a perception or…I do not know what it is. I hope it is not informed by any other thing apart from perception. Let it be perception and nothing else. Thank you, Hon. Speaker, I support."
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