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    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "doubt whether anyone would fault that—he was only in the Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee which rarely sits. So, it makes sense that we reorganise committees to accommodate some of these Members: Hon. TJ Kajwang’, Hon. Kaluma and others. I have heard one of my members, Hon. Tindi Mwale, complain a lot about being removed from PIC and taking him to another committee. He is a member of the energy committee. He was sitting in the energy committee and PIC. There are other Members who literally do not have committees. So, if he does not want to sit on the energy committee, he should tell us so that we return him to PIC and take him out of the energy committee. It should also not be a practice that you singly decide where to sit. As the leadership, we have some space to look around, see competences of Members and allocate you a committee. In fact, I remember when Hon. Gideon Mulyungi was being assigned to PIC, we had a long argument with him. I asked him: How do we put you in the transport committee and PIC and other Members do not even have any committee? He even had to call his party leader who was out of the country. I did not want to give his party leader too much stress because he was in Germany for a very important assignment. So, because he was troubling his party leader so much, I decided to let him be on the transport committee and PIC even though it was not fair. We must correct it now. I ask my colleagues to allow others also to serve other committees. I have served in the Public Investments Committee and Public Accounts Committee. I cannot insist on serving in those Committees forever."
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