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    "id": 936738,
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    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "No questions have been scheduled for next week as committees will embark on looking into the Supplementary Estimates for the Financial Year 2019/2020. The HBC will reconvene on Tuesday, 19th November 2019 at the rise of the House to schedule business for the rest of the week. Hon. Speaker, I want to raise an extra matter for your direction. There is something new which is happening in the 12th Parliament. It did not happen in the 10th and 11th Parliaments. There are lots of transactions of House business in the social media. Bills are proposed on Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp groups. Select committees are formed with names in the social media. Motions are approved in the Social media. Bills which are not before the House are discussed on television. I am sure you have seen that. This is only happening in the 12th Parliament. There was a ‘Select Committee’ which was formed last week. Among the people who are Members is Hon. Nassir. There is one which was formed on debt matters. It was on social media. I really looked at the House Business Committee and those Bills are either in the Table Office or elsewhere. I looked at all these. Hon. Nassir, you are a Member, you have been nominated. You will hear somebody saying and telling Kenyan people “I am bringing this Bill, I am forming this Committee, and I am doing this and that.” Hon. Speaker, it is high time you give direction that genuine businesses are transacted through the procedure of the House and in the Chamber, and that there is a whole track in the House Business Committee. You need to tell the people, from where you sit, that those purported motions, select committees, bills and petitions do not exist. We are leaders. We should not lie to our people. You will be accountable to them. They will ask where the Bill you have put on your Facebook account is. How come it is not coming? So, the only business before the House is read on Thursday every week. I am not sure whether any other business that you see elsewhere is part of this august House. This is a matter I felt is serious and I am sure even you are concerned. People wake up as early as 6.00 a.m. in the morning, go to television stations and discuss Bills that do not exist. They discuss Motions that do not exist. They give the calendar of the House that they are not aware of. I think you need to guide the House that what we do outside is not part of what is going on here. Thank you, Hon. Speaker. This is the document I have tabled."
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