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    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "to Questions, Petitions and Statements from this particular Committee. That is an issue that the House ought to discuss. I agree with what my brother, Hon. Wambugu Ngunjiri is saying, that maybe, the issues that we are discussing here are not for the Floor of the House. More substantively, the issue of committees delaying business that belongs to the House is a matter that we ought to discuss. I know this is a matter that I should be raising, and it has been raised. The Leader of the Majority Party is in the Liaison Committee. The Vice-Chair is also here. Traditionally, it is the Vice-Chair who is found seated in that Committee. I want to commend the Vice-Chair for taking his time to sit in the Committee. However, I think the Committee ought to take their work more seriously. Particularly, I urge the Committee Chair to ensure that they take their work seriously. Even as they form sub-committees, the ultimate responsibility rests with the substantive Chair and the Vice-Chair of the Committee. Even as Hon. Didmus Barasa disputes his vice- chairmanship, it should not escape this House that for him to get to the level of raising the issue on the Floor of the House, there might be other underlying issues. I would want to ask Hon. Ngunjiri Wambugu and the other Members of the Committee to sit down and get to know what is eating that Committee. It is only this Committee that has had very many issues being raised on the Floor of this House, especially issues to do with delays in responding to Questions. Hon. Speaker, the Leader of the Majority Party raised the issue of Cabinet Secretaries writing letters to Chairs of Committees. I have been here since the 11th Parliament and it is customary that, anybody, including Cabinet Secretaries, write. You can even write to the Clerk of the National Assembly and copy the letter to the Committee Chair. It is true that there are Chairs who communicate through phone calls or letters that are written like love letters between two persons. Some Committee Chairs even call meetings off. I ask the Leader of the Majority Party, if he has a copy of that particular letter, to be kind enough to table it, so that if a Committee Chair is doing this out of his or her undying love for a particular Cabinet Secretary, we can advise him or her in the Liaison Committee that, that can be done outside committee work or parliamentary business. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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