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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Pareno",
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        "legal_name": "Judith Ramaita Pareno",
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    "content": "the time we have, when it will resume, we would have thought enough on what we really want. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I say this because of the experience I have had with the few ad hoc Committees we have had, as a House, and how they performed. I have personally not had a very good feeling about how we ended with the reports that those committees did. A good example is the Solai Dam Report, where the Members told us that they had received threats. At the end of the day, very few Members signed that Report. The same happened to another report, which was not really ad hoc, but similar in nature; the Ruaraka Report. Members said that they had been threatened. At the end of the day, the House voted out a report that looked positive and voted for a report of its own Committee. The same happened to issues over the Ad hoc Committee on the Maize scandal, and we are yet to hear about the Ad hoc Committee on Tea in terms of how far they have gone. Therefore, looking at the kinds of experiences that we have had with ad hoc Committees in this House, it is important that we relook at what we have; the membership and how we arrived at that membership. The balancing has been proposed and, at the end of the day, we should get the best out of it, noting that this is a very sensitive issue. We need to have people who are ready to face it; to sign those reports and give a positive report to this House. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to support."
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