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    "id": 814152,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "There is also a trend by Members in the form of friends of a committee attending a committee to which they are not members. I am aware of committees which are packed with friends of the committee and the real members of the committee are left without sitting positions. They go there very early in the morning, occupy all the seats so that the people sitting in a committee are friends of the committee and not the actual members, including some of our colleagues in leadership. Can you imagine a committee meeting full of friends of the committee with no designated member of the committee? That has happened because if there is no chair, a member of the committee leaves. So, you will find a committee sitting attended by the Chair and friends of the committee. Is the concept a clear dilution of the committee system in a presidential system of parliament? We have committees where all Members can choose to attend at their discretion. To make it worse, Members even stopped declaring interest on matters under consideration by the House or by the committee as required by the dictates of Article 75 of the Constitution, Public Officer Ethics Act, Leadership and Integrity Act, Parliamentary and Privileges Act and Standing Order No. 90. All these prohibit and allow a Member to declare his interest."
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