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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, once again, you notice that there is something new on this. Hon. Sankok has tried to give just a few of the commissions. We have too many constitutional commissions whose reports have been filed with us. It cannot be that those reports are filed with us to come and enjoy. We need our respective relevant committees to also tell us. When we get a report on the state of the Judiciary, what was that state? We need to be told. The mechanism we have is through our committees. If you look at the way priority has been given here, it is to the chairperson. The chairperson will be given priority. The Leader of the Majority Party and the Leader of the Minority Party come second. You can see there is a reversal here so that we get to know more. If we are being told the report has come from the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), we need the chairman of the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee to come and lead that debate and tell us what it is that, that Commission has been doing for the last one year. What are they capable of doing, if at all, and how will the Committee suggest that this House handles that Commission? They are several. There is even one on gender and equality. The Commission on Administrative Justice was hived under Article 59 of the Constitution. Hon. Millie Odhiambo will recall this. About three other commissions were created out of the only one that was created in Article 59 of the Constitution. So, we need to get all those reports being debated. The way to go about that is as the Motion is framed. It is to allow the chairperson and the members of those respective committees more time. If it is a report from the Office of the Auditor-General - but not the report of the Auditor-General on accounts of government and other constitutional bodies... There is a Report on the Office of the Auditor-General. They file their reports here. There is the Controller of Budget. We need to be able to debate, on behalf of the people of Kenya, those offices and the reports that they present to us because we are supposed to be the eyes of the public."
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