{"count":1608389,"next":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=150668","previous":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=150666","results":[{"id":1524862,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1524862/?format=json","text_counter":799,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"South Mugirango, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Silvanus Osoro","speaker":null,"content":"for by the Standing Orders. Currently we have two main political affiliations: Kenya Kwanza Alliance or Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya Coalition Party. We also considered the question of gender and regional balance. The Budget and Appropriation Committee generated a high interest, with over 90 Members expressing interest in it. This was not very easy to decide; 90 Members expressed interest yet the Standing Orders only provide for 27. Therefore, the only way one can balance such issues is by coming up with a formula to consider aspects such as regional and gender balance, as well as political affiliations, negotiations and counter negotiations. This has not been very easy. Therefore, we urge this House to support this list as it is. There has also been a lot of politics as far as the formation of this list is concerned. There are sentiments that by the lapse of the formation of these committees, some Members will be moved, as the Chairpersons, from one side to another. I would like to inform the House that it is the Members who have been selected – upon their approval by this House – that will sit down, within seven days, and elect their own Chairpersons. Let it never come out there, for political reasons, that the leadership will influence the election of a specific Member as Chairperson and another one ejected. Those powers are not a preserve of the House leadership. It is the prerogative of the Members who sit on those committees to elect the Chairperson that they want and, therefore, such matters should not be politicised. If you lose an election in the committee that you have been placed in, do not blame some leaders or bring in the issue of politics and political persuasions; they are neither here nor there. Upon approval by this House, the membership of the committees, as indicated in the Schedule, have seven days to sit and elect their Chairpersons and Vice-Chairpersons. After that, they can come up with a schedule of their programmes. There are too many urgent matters that need to be handled. In the past two weeks, several urgent matters have been handled by the Liaison Committee. The Committee, through the Chairperson, the Deputy Speaker, has been very busy moving around the corridors doing the work that these committees ought to have done. That is why we urge that once the committees are formed, they should move with speed and elect their Chairpersons and Vice-Chairpersons. There are urgent matters that the committees should expedite. The issues such as NG-CDF, Budget Policy Statements (BPS) and the Supplementary Budget should be handled by these committees once they have been formed. Hon. Speaker, I beg to move, in the amended form, to include Hon. Irene Mayaka, who replaces Hon. Orero Peter Ochieng’, in the Committee on Regional Integration."},{"id":1524863,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1524863/?format=json","text_counter":800,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"On which page?"},{"id":1524864,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1524864/?format=json","text_counter":801,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"South Mugirango, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Silvanus Osoro","speaker":null,"content":" Hon. Speaker, let me check the page. As I said earlier, this exercise has not been easy. The Committee on Regional Integration is on page 165 of the Order Paper. If you try to move one person from one committee to the other, you affect another one. So, I move in the amended form because I had earlier moved as it appeared in the Order Paper. But I now move in the amended form, to include Hon. Irene Mayaka who replaces Hon. Orero Peter Ochieng’ in the Committee on Regional Integration. Hon. Speaker, I move and request the most gracious Whip of the Minority Party, Hon. Millie Odhiambo, to second."},{"id":1524865,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1524865/?format=json","text_counter":802,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Kajiado North, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Onesmus Ngongoyo","speaker":null,"content":" On a point of order, Hon. Speaker."},{"id":1524866,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1524866/?format=json","text_counter":803,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"There cannot be anything out of order. The Motion has not been seconded. Go on, Hon. Millie."},{"id":1524867,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1524867/?format=json","text_counter":804,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Suba North, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Millie Odhiambo-Mabona","speaker":null,"content":" Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to second this Motion."},{"id":1524868,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1524868/?format=json","text_counter":805,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Are you seconding as it is or in the amended form?"},{"id":1524869,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1524869/?format=json","text_counter":806,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Suba North, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Millie Odhiambo-Mabona","speaker":null,"content":" I am sorry, Hon. Speaker. I second this Motion in the amended form. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."},{"id":1524870,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1524870/?format=json","text_counter":807,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Suba North, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Millie Odhiambo-Mabona","speaker":null,"content":"I wish to indicate, just as the Whip of the Majority Party has indicated, that there are committees whose terms expired mid-term, therefore, were being reconstituted. But there are also Members who have shown different interests in other different committees. Further, there are also some vacancies that arose either because a Member passed on or lost the seat. We have done that as well. One of the things that I would wish to indicate is that during this process, I requested the Members in the Minority side to express interest in different committees. More than 40 Members expressed interest in changing committees. The Whip of the Majority Party has also indicated that most Members were interested primarily in four committees, including one committee in which I serve. I have had to let go of the committee. Despite that, some Members may feel like their interests have not been met. It could have been my wish and choice that everybody got what they wanted but, unfortunately, the vacant positions are not enough. I urge Members to borrow from me because in the last Parliament, I was in only one committee but I am still here, serving my fourth term. Sometimes it is not committees that make a difference but the work you do in this House and for your constituents. Some of the things that we took into consideration include the issue of gender, regional balance and ranking of Members, but in the process, some Members did not get what they wanted. I would like to reiterate that after this process, including the election of the Chairpersons and Vice-Chairperson, there will be a second round of re-organisation. I encourage Members who did not get the committees that they were interested in to hold on and wait for the second level re-organisation. Hon. Speaker, I second. I also thank Hon. Osoro. Thank you."},{"id":1524871,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1524871/?format=json","text_counter":808,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Order, Hon. Members. Those of you on your feet, take your seats."}]}