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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": "by this House, to accord it special attention without having to recall the House. Invariably, a number of appointments requiring consideration of the House have been made in the past when the House is on recess. When that happens, Standing Order No.61(2)(a) on a Special Motion states that the Speaker must dispose of the matter within seven days of receipt. We are going for 10 days recess and the Standing Order is talking of seven days. That implies that the Speaker may have to recall the House within those days in keeping with the Standing Orders. Therefore, so that we are not caught up by that, we must make a resolution as a House. In that regard, the House Business Committee has deemed it fit for the House to make this kind of a resolution this afternoon to apply for each time we go on a recess. One of the appointments that the President may refer to this House for vetting is the Chair and Commissioners of the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC). I saw the CEO of NCIC speaking on the kind of hate speeches doing rounds. It will be better if the Commission is in place, so that it makes a decision on the hate speeches and not the secretariat. So, I hope the committee that will be given that task will be the Committee on National Cohesion and Equal Opportunity. Hon. Kamanda must lead from the front in making sure that he is compliant in terms of cohesion. You cannot be the Chairperson of the Committee on National Cohesion and Equal Opportunity and you are not compliant. The Chairperson is my neighbour. He is a respectable career civil servant and a politician. He is a good Chairperson. So, as he vets the men and women that the President will submit when we are on recess, all of them - the committee and the nominees - must be compliant in terms of integration and cohesion. I am sure within the 10 days recess, the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) will present their report. Their deadline is 23rd October. So, they have time. We are eagerly waiting. I am happy to report that the Punguza Mizigo Initiative is dead as I had said before. I said in day one that it was dead on arrival. I saw the leader of that party that has no MCA, no Member of Parliament, no governor or Senator, insulting me on television the other day. I want to tell him that I am a leader of a serious political party with 170 Members of Parliament. This Motion is important. I now ask the Leader of the Minority Party, who is a Member of the House Business Committee, to second so that names of any appointment that the President or the Executive will make go direct to the Committee."
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