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    "speaker_name": "Kuresoi North, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Moses Cheboi",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Kipkemboi Cheboi",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, you know I am never unreasonable. On the face of it, the proposal by the Senior Counsel looks perfectly in order. Of course, I am senior than him in the profession but he is a Senior Counsel and a very serious lawyer at that. Let us start with the basics. On many afternoons, the Leader of the Majority Party reads what would be happening the following week. He even did it this afternoon. That does not make it wrong. He does not even need to consult with anybody. He just brings programmes that are coming the following week. We also have the HBC. I am not a member but in the absence of the Speaker, I have managed to attend about two or three of its meetings. I realised that actually the Leader of the Majority Party and the Leader of the Minority Party consult and that is how these things come to the House. We really do not need to put these things in our rules because they can bog down the issue of questions. In the first place, for the people who are supposed to come and answer questions - I got your first name today Hon. Omboko Milemba Jeremiah - it is the Leader of the Majority Party who will be pushing to see that the CSs come to answer questions. It will not be the Leader of the Minority Party. As I said before, he himself brought the amendment that is for improvement of this thing on a day-to-day basis. I beseech Members; let us not make it difficult. Let it go through. Unless it is completely unreasonable, this is something that can be improved. You cannot amend one part, like what the Leader of the Majority Party does. For me, it does not matter who is senior and who is not. It is about us having questions answered in good time. What we will be doing is to hold the Leader of the Majority Party to account. If he delays, we hold him to account. That is the position. I really request Members, please let us proceed and finalise this matter."
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