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    "content": "of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning. These are; the Hon. Samuel Atandi and the Hon. Kimani Kuria. My concern emanates from the fact that, unlike the non- members of the Committee, the two Members had a primary opportunity to interact with the Bill during the Committee’s intense consideration of the Bill. Ordinarily, anyone would expect that the Members would have proposed their amendments in the Committee, rather than doing so outside the Committee, in the manner they have done. I have scrutinised the Report of the Committee on the Finance Bill, 2019 and did confirm that indeed, Hon. Samuel Atandi and Hon. Kimani Kuria were part of the sittings of the Committee in which the Bill was considered on a clause by clause basis. I have further confirmed that Hon. Atandi did append his signature to signify his consent for the adoption of the Committee’s Report on the Bill while Hon. Kimani Kuria, though absent on the day the Report was adopted had attended all meetings in which the Committee considered the Bill. The fact that there is no record in the Report of the Committee to the effect that the two Members raised divergent views or made a case for a minority report as contemplated under Standing Order 199(6) implies that they were in agreement with the Committee’s position on the Bill and the amendments proposed thereof. As your Speaker, I am particularly concerned that Members can sit in meetings of their Committee on a Bill, adopt a Report thereof and then later on propose amendments, part of which seems to be reversing the position of the Committee, which they were part of. This is quite unusual. In conclusion, Hon. Members, the Committee of the whole House shall proceed on the specified amendments in accordance with the guidance I have provided. The House is accordingly guided. I thank you. So, we move to the next Order."
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