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    "id": 985655,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "We agreed to sit once in a week following the advice from the Ministry of Health. The advice is that once we sit and use this Chamber, the next thing that should happen is for us to allow four days to pass. Otherwise, we would have had no problem at all sitting on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Therefore, we sat and agreed that for us to realize that, the most practical day is Wednesday. So, Hon. Members, that is why we seek to sit one day in a week but in that one day, we will be having three Sittings. Again, the reasoning for that is simple. We will be encountering situations where we need to deal with one piece of legislation at different stages in a day. For us to do that, we ought to have more than one Siting. Therefore, we decided that way so that we do not keep asking Members every week to allow for more than one stage of a Bill or a particular Motion to be transacted. We make a general principle of sitting three times on Wednesday. We cannot lack business to transact. This is a very busy period in the Calendar of Parliament, but it is unfortunate that it is the period that we are handling this crisis."
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