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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wandayi",
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        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, in the last Parliament we had a very strange phenomenon in this House where you would find a Member sitting in as many as five committees. With the little experience I have from the last Parliament, it is not possible for a Member to be effective in more than two committees. In fact, I propose going forward that perhaps we limit membership to one committee per Member in future. This is because these committees as has been rightly put, are key organs and platforms for doing business of this House. The more efficient they are, the better for everybody really. Hon. Speaker, I want to comment on the quality of the leadership of committees. I agree with the Majority Leader when he suggested that Members of certain key committees like the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations and so forth should be taken through some form of induction before they begin their work. I would even further suggest that we take seriously the matter of inducting the leadership of these committees because it is assumed--- It is because the leadership of a committee is expected to command certain leadership skills and managerial capabilities. It is assumed that once you are a chairman of a committee, you possess those capabilities. That is not the case because this House has got a diversity of presentation across the country and backgrounds and, therefore, it is critical that leadership that will be elected is taken through some form of orientation so that they are alive to the fact that they have an onerous responsibility in their hands. Hon. Speaker, I say this because in the last Parliament, I belonged to two committees and you could see the difference that came about as a result of lack of capabilities in the leadership of a certain committee vis-à-vis the other. Therefore, I recommend that in future, we take this into The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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