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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to second Motion No.10 on the Order Paper. As the Leader of the Majority Party rightly put it, this is one of the sessional committees that we have to form every time Parliament resumes from the long recess at the end of one Session. I also agree with the Leader of the Majority Party that this is a very important committee. At times it is a very idle committee because when Members do not behave in a manner likely to demand that there is need for the Powers and Privileges Committees to sit and look at the issue, the committee more or less remains idle. Hon. Speaker, this time round I ask this committee to take time and look at the Powers and Privileges Act and just clean it up. This is because some of the provisions in the Act may enslave MPs instead of promoting and enhancing the work of Parliament. I know there were some provisions that were included in this Act towards the end of the last Parliament, which may be very offensive to these MPs. I urge this Committee, instead of remaining idle to wait for Members who misbehave, which may not happen, they can take their time to look at the Act. I know the Hon. Speaker, who is the Chairman, is very busy. So, you can delegate to other Members to take their time to be meeting often or regularly to look at the Act. Hon. Speaker, you can see the National Super Alliance (NASA) Coalition is still very intact despite all that has taken place, including what happened this afternoon in the House. We will remain intact. I want to tell you that even in this committee we have representation from the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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