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    "content": "information is clearly displayed on the screens, so that any Member of the House, a member of the public and even the media are free to go and see when the Cabinet Secretaries are appearing. Therefore, the ICT Department, through the Clerk’s Office, is directed to make sure that that is complied with without fail. Indeed, even ordinary meetings of committees should be displayed on a daily basis, even if it is a Friday. Somebody walking into this institution should be able to see that next week on Monday, this particular committee will be sitting at Uhuru Park doing public participation or will be sitting at the Kenyatta Internal Convention Centre or any such like places, if not within any of the other rooms provided by Parliament. That is the way to also give information to every Member. It should even be on the website, but it should not be taken that when it is on the website, it is not displayed. It must also be displayed. That is what happens in all other modern parliaments. You walk in and you can tell that this committee is sitting in this room and even the business to be transacted is indicated. That is the way to also remind our own Members. I appreciate sometimes Members will be busy in various other places doing all manner of things, like today Members have been to two different functions. But when a Member gets to the reception, he is able to very quickly know, if he is a Member of a committee and there was leave for the committee to meet at a particular place and time, he can immediately get the information and move to the venue. At all times what we do must be known. That is the spirit of the Constitution. Information must at all times be available not just to ourselves, but also to the public with whom we interact. Even when you come with your visitors to the reception, they should see on the screen that there is this and this business happening. Even when you have constituents who want to harass you, you tell them, “I am a Member of this committee and you can see it is sitting. So, you better go back to the village and we meet over the weekend.” That is another way of helping you offload some of the unnecessary baggage that occasionally accompanies you. Indeed, the point you have raised, Leader of the Majority Party, is important. The Clerk’s Office should assist the House to get this information. I see other interventions. Are they on the same matter? Member for West Mugirango, what is your intervention about?"
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