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    "id": 821293,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Madam Temporary Speaker. I want to begin by thanking the Senator for Uasin Gishu as well as the Senator for Bungoma for bringing this Motion. I have been on record at both the Senate Business Committee (SBC) as well as on the Floor of this House raising concern about the number of ad hoc committees that are setting up especially to look at issues that are squarely within the mandate of a committee. I realised that this might be an indictment of our own standing committees. Ideally, if you look at the mandate of the Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, it should be competent enough to have looked at this issue. Going forward, the House needs to be made aware that the Liaison Committee halved the budged of ad hoc committees. So, many of the issues can and should be competently prosecuted within the purview of the committees that we have. Agriculture is an important issue. I do not know what would be more important to the Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries than the plight of our maize farmers. That is an issue that they should be front and centre on. I still support this particular Motion. Until the day we change our rules on the purview, breadth and width of what an ad hoc committee should look at, I support the setting up of this Committee on this issue because it is timely. By the time we come back from recess, we hope the Committee will have brought back its findings so that we discuss them in Uasin Gishu County; a county that many may not know gave us the name “unga”. Many people may not know that “unga” is not a Kiswahili word. It actually stands for Uasin Gishu Grain Association. At that time, Uasin Gishu Grain Association millers came together and it is good that they gave us that name."
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