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    "content": "committee system, perhaps we could also encourage Members who bring request for statements here to prosecute them in committees. There, CSs can be summoned and any Member interested in prosecuting a similar statement can appear. You can also use the Parliamentary Broadcasting Unit because sometimes during the statement hour, hon. Members also want to play to the gallery for their constituents. You can also encourage live coverage for such committees when such statements are being interrogated. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the second issue that the Liaison Committee should address is the inability of this House to prosecute petitions. Our rules are very clear, 60 days must be the time within which a petition is received, presented, interrogated and a report tabled on the Floor of this House. However, we have had no situation, apart from one or two, where a petition has been processed within the requisite 60 days. I want this House to address this issue because when the wananchi bring their petitions to this House, it means that they have failed elsewhere. They have tried at the county level and they have found it unnecessary to go to the National Assembly and the Executive. They then come to this House to seek justice. During the last Parliament, we had petitions that lasted four years and lapsed with the House. We, therefore, need a better system of managing those petitions when they come to this House. We shall, otherwise, end up being a House of crumbling cards and not doing much for the wananchi ."
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