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    "id": 864863,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kimilili, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Didmus Barasa",
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        "legal_name": "Didmus Wekesa Barasa Mutua",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. Even as I support this Petition, I also want to decry that every time this Parliament sits such petitions are presented before it, but I have never seen a report tabled here. I know for a fact that a petition needs to be looked into within a specified period of 60 days, but I know for a fact that we have very many petitions that have lapsed and this is completely not acceptable. The only seriousness that we can give to these petitions as a House is to expeditiously look into them. We have been blaming Cabinet Secretaries for delaying to respond to Questions raised by this House but again as Members of Parliament, we should not allow such petitions to die in our hands. It will be assumed that the House is colluding with those that are against those petitions to kill them. I have brought about two petitions but I know they have died. We need to really move with speed. We should also propose sanctions to committee chairpersons who will fail to expeditiously look into such petitions."
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