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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Therefore, this Motion is exempting the House from that procedure. We are saying, if you receive names—and hopefully today we will pass the committees and next week they will elect their chairs and vice-chairs—then you will directly send to the relevant committees, and you will only call the House when we want to approve or reject those nominees. So, this is just to make sure that we give Members that leeway. According to the published calendar of the House and Standing Order 27(1), when we proceed to recess today, we will resume for regular session on 13th February 2018. During this period, it is anticipated that His Excellency the President may send names of persons proposed for appointment to various offices, including Cabinet Secretaries, for consideration by the House. What this Motion is asking is the authority of the House for you to commit such names when received to the relevant committee for approval, so that the House may only be recalled for a special sitting if necessary to consider those names, either for approval or rejection. We did this several times in the 11th Parliament and colleagues who were there will agree with me. This practice is not new to this House. So, I beg to move. It is a very simple Motion. And today we have a very heavy agenda. When we say put the Question to a procedural Motion, we have no intention of curtailing your right to expression. But if you look at the Order Paper this morning and for the afternoon, which is EALA elections, it is a busy day. Where we feel we can cut on time, we are absolutely…. Personally, I have no intention of curtailing. You can speak in this House from morning to evening. It is the Speaker that allows that provision. We have to look at the Order Paper. There are very heavy agenda. This is just to make sure, in a nutshell, when the Speaker receives names from the Executive or any other institution, we are exempting him from calling a special sitting of the House just to read names and then go home. We are giving that power, through this Motion, to the Speaker. Once he receives names for appointment from the President, he sends them directly to the relevant committees. The committees will deal with the matters within the stipulated period as per the Public Appointments (Parliamentary Approval) Act, 2011. He will only call the House for either approval or rejection. So it is as clear as that. I will ask Hon. Washiali to second."
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