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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Wamalwa, you are making a very valid point. Any Member who moves a report or Bill and tables it before the House should always be here when Members are contributing because there is the opportunity to reply. Hon. Members, it is something we must avoid. If you have signed a Bill and moved it here, you must sit here and listen to contributions from the Members, so that when you reply, you do it to that which you have heard. However, the habit I have noticed is that a Member moves a report and then goes on a frolic in town. Because there will be an opportunity to come and reply, you come and say that you want to thank the Members for their contribution, which you have not heard. Hon. Wamalwa, do not worry about the time. I will give you extra two minutes because the point you are making is very valid. The Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee should listen and the Committee clerk should take notes, so that when he replies, he says what was said by Hon. Wamalwa about sampling and projects. This was the way we dealt with it in the committee. He has 15 minutes to reply. A Member cannot come here and say that he wants to thank Members for their very useful and insightful contribution. These are hollow words. You will be cheating your colleagues. I am sure that all of you know that there are several Members here who have that habit. They move Bills and then they take off. They do not listen to the debate and then two or three days down the road, you come here and say that you want to thank the Members for their very useful contribution. You might as well just rise in your place and bow and claim to have replied instead of saying that, because you are not being honest and fair to the Members. So, please, the reason why we said that we want the Chairs of committees to give this Report the first shot is also because they could find themselves being criticised. Let us take our work more seriously. The public must see that you are serious. This is the budget process. Hon. Wamalwa, you can now do your three minutes."
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