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    "id": 981352,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ruaraka, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. T.J. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, I rise to agree that the thematic arrangement of this new approach is very good because it will allow departmental committee leaders to go to the depth of the subject matters in their thematic areas. However, if I were given the opportunity, I would have amended this Motion. Judging from all the Motions that we have passed before, we have been giving the Leader of the Majority Party and the Leader of the Minority Party so much opportunity to address the House. We give them so much opportunity that we kill free speech and contribution by Members. This is one of those areas where I think we should have just allowed the Mover and everybody else to take 10 minutes each, including the Leader of the Majority Party and the Leader of the Minority Party. Really, what is it that the Leader of the Majority Party or the Leader of the Minority Party would want to say more than the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs? Who is more prime and has done research well and will be delivering his or her issues according to that thematic area? If we dressed down the timing here, we would probably save some 50 minutes which can easily be given to Members so that as many Members as possible are able to express themselves. After all, a debate on a presidential Motion is when somebody even from Turkana would have an opportunity to come and say that they love their President and how he or she thinks he has done well - and he would have spoken. However, if we do not have an opportunity by being Members of this House… I am not a Chair of a Departmental Committee neither am I the Leader of the Minority Party. It would seem that we have left Bunge or National Assembly to these big people who sit in front of us. I think this is one of the issues which need to be re-looked at so that Bunge belongs to everyone who has been voted to be here."
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