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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "If you are the Chair of the Welfare Committee of the PSC, it is your business to go to the gym and check whether those machines are working. It is not that we appoint you a member of the Commission and then it is the last day we see you. The next time we see you is the beginning of another Parliament when you want us to renew your contract. We want value for our votes. Today, we are voting; we want value for these votes. If you do not want to work for us, we will not give you votes. Some of the Commission’s role is to provide service and facilities to ensure the efficient and effective running of Parliament. If all the facilities and services in this Parliament are up to the task and are good, then the efficiency and the effectiveness in terms of running of Parliament will be seen. The other mandate or role of the Commissioners is to constitute offices in Parliament or the Parliamentary Service, appointing and supervising office holders. Services have deteriorated. If you go to Protection House... In the 10th Parliament, I am sure those who served will tell me, staff of Parliament used to bring the forms for mileage to us to sign. You would find members of staff bringing us our cheques even at the lounge when we were having tea. We never used to look for these facilities. I am told that today if you go to Protection House, you have to bribe a member of staff of Parliament before you are given any service. It is becoming bad! A member of staff has to be bribed for him to remove your file and for him to take that file to another officer. Parliament has been turned into the animal farm - There are people who are more equal than others. My advice to colleagues: let us maintain the space between us and members of staff of Parliament. We have a role to play in that. We must have personal space. We are leaders. We are supposed to be role models. You can have your business with other people out there, but please to do not engage in funny business with members of staff of Parliament. If you want to be 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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