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    "id": 974671,
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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": "This afternoon I did lay a Paper from the National Government Constituencies Development (NG-CDF) Board containing a list of nominees to 80 NG-CDF committees that have been referred to the Committee on NG-CDF for consideration. I wish to draw the attention of the Members to the fact that from previous experience, the Committee has noted that this list of nominees sometimes usually contains errors. The said errors include indication of the wrong gender, the category that a particular nominee represents as well as failure to indicate the official names of nominees, among others. So, once it is gazetted, we find errors. So, we want the Chair of the Committee, seated behind me, to ensure that the names and gender indication are correct before the House approves for on ward gazettment. Hon. Speaker, this has caused a lot of inconvenience to the National Assembly because once the errors are realised, the Assembly has to issue a corrigenda in order to correct the same errors. Given these concerns, I wish to urge Members whose constituencies’ nominees to the NG-CDF committees have been tabled, to walk to the Table Office. It takes you 10 minutes and pick the detailed document in order to verify the details indicated. So, Members whose constituencies I have tabled this afternoon, the 80 of them, please, before we come for debate next week, just walk to the Table Office. You can even pick the document from the Clerk’s Table. Check the spelling of the names and gender, so that we are not forced to issue a corrigendum. They should inform the Committee in writing if there are errors. The HBC will reconvene on 10th March 2020 at the rise of the House to consider business. I want to ask the Members seated here to remain for some time because we have to finish the Budget Policy Statement (BPS) debate and the Question to be put. Today is the last day. Let me help the Whips because I am not seeing the Minority Whips. You know Whips and the leadership enjoy certain privileges for the work they do. So, they must be in the House. The privileges include more security, vehicles and office. So, please, let us stay to finish the BPS because today is the last day after extension last week. On behalf of the leadership, let us stay for another one hour before we check-out. The few of us who will deal with the Presidential Memoranda, I can see we are less than 100. So, the 233 the Speaker said we must raise today looks very futile. So, the Chair of Justice and Legal Affairs Committee, do not stress yourself. The Committee of the whole House will take less than 10 minutes. I beg to table."
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