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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": "the other side Hon. Pekoes, we have to allow them to be able to educate us more on matters health; matters finance and matters legal. Finally, it is something that the leadership is considering, really not to gag Members but probably we will be asking the Chair that the leadership from both sides give you about three Members from each side on each Motion, so that Members who have serious interest on certain Motions or Bills and the leadership is convinced that truly you need to set the agenda for the majority or minority side, that you are given the opportunity to give your view in terms of contributing then later other Members can join. We may limit it to three Members so that we also do not appear like it is the leadership deciding who speaks. That is a practice in many jurisdictions. There are Members who have learnt the tactics of always queuing here. These Members walk in and put their cards and already they are queuing in line and you realize that they are the only ones who speak all the time. Without insinuating some negative feelings about them, sometimes when you hear those Members speak you really ask yourself whether they really had to speak to that Motion. When another Member comes very late and has a lot of points…. Yesterday I was listening to debate on KNH and I realized there are some Members who made very informed contributions—I will not mention names—but they came later in the day because other people queued ahead of them. Members, with all due respect to all of us, I think we have expertise in different lines. If you really have very strong conviction to contribute to a Motion, you can always contact the leadership and then we will talk to the Speaker to give you that chance. But we will limit it to two or three Members so that we do not water down the power of the Speaker to be able to be the one whose eyes are supposed to be caught by Members. It is not the Leader of the Majority Party and Leader of the Minority Party. Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I second."
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