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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wamunyinyi",
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        "legal_name": "Athanas Misiko Wafula Wamunyinyi",
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    "content": "Thank you very much Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute on this Sessional Paper. This Sessional Paper seeks to address important and fundamental issues which are also captured very well in our Constitution. But, before I make my comments on this, you will note that the mood in the House over the previous Order was one of excitement. Majority of Members walked out after it was concluded. Before the establishment of the Parliamentary Service Commission, Parliament was then a department in the Office of the President and the Clerk and other officers were appointed by His Excellency the President. Members then were not facilitated and were neither housed nor given offices. They were not given facilities for work until the establishment of the Commission. So, it is such an important Commission which Members need to accord the seriousness it deserves. I hope those who have been nominated to serve in the Commission are going to do a good job. I trust Hon. Naomi Shaban who is one of the longest serving Members and was with us here at the time of the establishment of the Commission. We trust that you are going to deal with the issues that affect Members; that Members will be facilitated adequately in order to perform their mandate of representation, oversight and legislation. You will ensure Members go back to the constituency and come back; you will ensure that you do not employ your relatives in the Commission; you do not employ your husbands, children and so on so that Members are adequately served. I wanted to say that as a preamble then proceed to the issue of the Sessional Paper."
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