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    "content": "responsible for its own calendar. In those days, you never discussed issues of when the House would recess because you could be anticipating debate. These days, there is a requirement that the calendar is even printed. The Calendar for this year was adopted by this House on 13th February this year. So, this House is scheduled to recess on 5th December. Now, you are saying the Chairman should do something in the next two weeks. I am not too sure whether you have taken into account that in two weeks’ time, that is around 17th, many of you will be preparing to be with your families and, perhaps, be in other places. Are you suggesting that the House will come for a special sitting? Unfortunately, if it is to be so, under the law, you do not have the authority to write to the Speaker to call for that special sitting. You would have to convince Hon. John Mbadi or Hon. Duale to write and indicate there is need for that. Be that as it may, can the Chairman finalise the report before Thursday? It looks impossible. You can say he should but, even if they were to invite people, the requirements of the law is that you should give them, at least, seven days’ notice. What if they do not hear evidence from the people they needed to hear from? All other committees have been busy scrutinising the Supplementary Estimates. Are you suggesting that you are so ignorant of what you have been doing in the last few weeks? Every Committee has been busy with the Supplementary Estimates. You are expecting the Chair of Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock was not involved in the consideration of the Supplementary Estimates and was sleeping with cattle or camels. He too, just like you as an MP, was busy with the Supplementary Estimates. I do not think the request he made is unreasonable. In any event, I have told him to move a motion for extension of time. It is a reality that the House will be on recess. Unless you convince the two leaders to write to me and persuade me that the business is special! I also need to be persuaded that discussing the report of that Committee is special. It looks like there are too many hurdles on the way. One, the House is going on recess. The other is that Hon. Joshua Kutuny will have to persuade Hon. John Mbadi or Hon. Aden Duale to write to me and request for a special sitting indicating the definite business to be transacted. Also, I have to be persuaded that, indeed, this is urgent and definite; in as much as this is good business for bonga points. But, the reality of the situation is that, it is impossible. So, Hon. Joshua Kutuny, the point you have raised is good but, persuade the Chairman because I want to go by the Calendar of the House. Then, you can persuade the other two gentlemen. I see an intervention by the Member for Nyando."
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