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    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay Town, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, let me thank you for giving me the opportunity to clarify this matter again. I am happy that Hon. Didmus now confirms the sub-committees exist. He also confirms that he is in my sub-committee. If you look at the deliberations during the Committee Sitting where the sub-committees were constituted, you will find that the direction - and the Chair of the Committee is here - was that each sub-committee should go and organise their leadership. We met and determined the leadership of the sub-committee dealing with Bills, petitions, request for statements and other things. I was made the Chair and Hon. Didmus the Vice-Chair. I did say when I was before you that the problem we have with Hon. Didmus is that he never attends those committee meetings. So, what we could be arguing is that he was not in the meeting where he was made the Vice- Chair. Hon. King’ang’i confirms. My position on this matter is simple: I think we are tired of this thing that matters of this Committee are being debated in this House as if we do not know what we are doing. I proposed to the Chair of the Committee that if Hon. Didmus does not want to be a vice-chair, we are not only removing him, but also removing him from that sub-committee. And we will take it up in the Committee itself so that Hon. Didmus also leaves the Committee under the Standing Orders so that the dramas he is bringing here can be elsewhere. This is a Government Committee. The Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security is Government Committee. We cannot have a person who consistently…. If I am not truthful, then all the members of the sub-committee are here. Hon. Mbai, who sat on the sub-committee confirmed as a member. He confirmed that we made Hon. Didmus the vice-chair. So, if he fails not to be there, it is not my business. We did what we did. If he is not interested, we can sit again and remove him immediately and we forget about him."
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