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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, if you followed keenly what the Whip of the Majority Party has presented, you may have heard that there is a Report by the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs to debate the state of the Judiciary Report. I want to commend the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs and draw the attention of other Committees who oversee various State organs, all of which present their reports to Parliament through the Office of the Speaker that, there are not many Committees that have brought reports on the various State organs. It is important that when those reports come to before the Committees, you also go through them because I have been petitioned by many constitutional commissions saying that they have presented reports to the House year in, year out and some quarterly, but have not heard the Committees that oversee them report on what they think of those reports. They are keen to know what Parliament has made of the reports that they present. It is not enough that the Constitution requires all those bodies to submit their reports. The major idea behind it is for the House, through Committees, to go through them and report to the House and make some resolutions on what the reports are all about. So, this is an appeal to other Committees to go through the reports that have been submitted from various State organs. I have not received reports from county organs and so, I am unlikely to speak on them. But on national State organs, most of which report to this House, I believe over 97 per cent report to this House. Please, if you have any of the reports, go through them and let the House know what you think of them. That is why the reports are referred to the respective Committees."
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