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    "id": 824966,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/824966/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "After the sugar issue, all of us must protect the integrity of this House. Some of the Members who went to that committee as friends were asking leading questions. I have met some of them and I told them that we are going to expose them. I am sending a warning that in this amendment, we have brought a provision that if you want to be a friend of a committee, you must first write to the Chair of that committee and give reasons why you want to be a friend. You cannot just walk in and out. I do not think that as the Leader of the Majority Party I would want to be a friend of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) unless I have an interest. We do not want a situation where people will go to a committee as friends to pursue certain interests. For you to walk to a committee which you are not a member, you must have a valid reason. We are asking you to share that valid reason with the Chair of that committee so that you are given an opportunity to ask pertinent questions. All of us must protect the integrity of Parliament so that the committees and the chairpersons do diligent work on the investigations they carry. Hon. Speaker, while you were away, and I am sure you will be given the HANSARD, the Departmental Committee on Lands met somewhere in County Hall and from the information we got, it was very bad. I am sure those Members know themselves. I have shared with the Chair of that Committee."
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