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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "This is not for debate because Hon. Pukose has indicated he needs my guidance. It will be a simple one. If you write to any person once or twice to appear before your Committee and he or she declines, neglects or refuses, by the third time you should write a report to the Clerk who will bring up the matter to me so that we can issue summons. Since that has not happened and all you wanted is my direction, then I direct that the said officers who you have invited to appear before your Committee should appear at such time as you shall appoint as a Committee. But, of course, being mindful of the complaints we have received that invited persons come and stay on the corridors waiting for the Committee to quorate, we should avoid a scenario where they write to complain of being kept waiting. In the next few days our instruction will be when a Committee does not sit or form quorum at the appointed time, 30 minutes thereafter, the invited people are at liberty to disperse. In fact, the Committee will be debarred from purporting to invite such persons again. It is within your right under the Constitution to invite people. Let a person appear before any Committee and make excuses, defenses or explanations. It is for the Committee to make a decision based on the information which the person proffers. So, it is not fair for persons to just ignore invitations to appear before a Committee thereby assuming the Committee will know about it through social media or probably they might have seen some of you who prosecute matters on television stations on a regular basis, sometimes, even at 5.00 a.m. I do not know who you are usually addressing at that hour. At the very least, they should appear and explain themselves. Kenyans are encouraged to know that Parliamentarians are not impervious to reasoning. When given good reasons they will make an appropriate decision which upholds the dignity of both the institution and the person appearing before them. So, if you appoint a date, the Clerk is instructed to write to them and they must appear without fail. The other excuses they may have are immaterial. Let them come and give those reasons to the Committee. The Committee then, being seized of those explanations will make a decision. Let us proceed. Next Order!"
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