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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, I appreciate that Hon. Wanjala has been out of Parliament for a number of years. I am sure he must have sought advice from somebody. It is only fair that when you see somebody getting a bit lost or he may have forgotten some of these things, he be reminded. That is why we have a system whereby Cabinet Secretaries (CSs) will be called before the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations every Tuesday. That is something that in the old days which Hon. Wanjala remembers, used to be called Questions by Private Notice. Now, under the Petition process, the Committee has up to 60 days. So, if you wanted some redress, it is like swimming in the ocean heading nowhere. You said that it was on 12th February, if I heard you correct. This is the kind of thing that should have been brought by way of questions that go before the Committee so that the CS through the Office of the Leader of the Majority Party comes and explains, after listening to the issue that you have raised. Therefore, before the exercise closes, some form of redress or suggestions for redress are made. However, since you have gone the route of a Petition, it will be committed to the Committee which is required to listen to you and those residents within 60 or such longer time as they may request the House to extend and you can see the danger. I am trying to tell you all these because it is possible for the Committee to say within the 60 days they have not heard everybody. This is because they may need to go to Budalangi to listen to those villagers and say how it happened in that particular way. I am giving this advice for free. I appreciate that what the Hon. Member wants to raise is an issue which needs immediate intervention."
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