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    "id": 881002,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Nuh",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Junet Sheikh Nuh",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, I also understand a bit of their language. They are discussing camel business. I do not know what it has to do with KAA. Instead of sending the Auditor-General to audit, the Committee should have halted their investigations and told the Ministry to bring the policy and sessional papers so that they could look at them. This Committee does not understand its powers. They think the only power they have is to send the Auditor-General to investigate. They also have powers to ask for documents. They have powers to ask for policy and sessional papers. They have all kinds of power. They need serious legal advice. Their power is not limited to audited accounts only. This is a very important committee of this Parliament. It belongs to and is chaired by the minority side. I expected them to do a better job than this. They have brought a progress report to Parliament. Hon. Speaker, I would like to know whether this matter is properly before the House. Under Standing Order No.200, a progress report is first supposed to be taken to the Liaison Committee. I do not know whether this Report has been taken to that Committee or it was sneaked into the House. We need to investigate. We need to form some kind of ad hoc committee to investigate this matter. The Standing Orders say that we must take this progress report to the Liaison Committee. I am not the one saying that. This House is guided by the Standing Orders. Hon. Speaker, you are the custodian of the Standing Orders. That is why I am directing my matter to you. This is a matter that is at policy stage. The Cabinet has just passed a policy paper. As a Member of Parliament, I have heard all that from the market, newspapers and the media. I have not even seen the policy paper. As Hon. Oundo said, if you now act on rumours, innuendos and bad talk, we will lose sight of the most important matter, which is to oversee the interests of the people of this republic. The Committee should take back this Report, demand that the Government provides them with policy or sessional papers and interrogate those papers. They can do it jointly with the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing and not table in this House a progress report. They should bring a report that contains all issues and enlighten us on how we should go about this matter. This is a progress report. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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