{"id":932871,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/932871/?format=json","text_counter":91,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Homa Bay Town, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Peter Kaluma","speaker":{"id":1565,"legal_name":"George Peter Opondo Kaluma","slug":"george-peter-opondo-kaluma"},"content":" I thank you, Hon. Speaker. The Chair of the Committee did not give me a copy of the statement before he read it. This is a very serious matter. You heard when I raised the issue, he indicated that in some of them, even with the limitations of procedures under request for statements, there can be a bit of comments from the Members. I wanted to request that I be allowed, like my other colleagues, to read this statement. As I did say when I sought response, some of the teachers affected here have since died—up to about three of them, whose details I already have. I was not notified by my colleague that he was going to read the Statement. I did not imagine it would be in this manner. But he has done his part. Allow me the opportunity to read through the statement. I am a lawyer; I hope the matters being said to be sub judice are, indeed, sub judice and have been duly explained as such. Allow me when we come next, because this is a matter of concern to the public and to Parliament, if"}