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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise for clarification, not to doubt or challenge your direction. However, you cannot douse the responsibility of 51(d) to the House. This House has a Leader of Majority. He was the first to state that we be guided by the decision of this House on the failure of the Prime Cabinet Secretary to appear. The clarification I am looking for is two pronouncements from you. The first one is that you direct the Leader of Majority, on our behalf, to present a Motion of Censure against the Cabinet Secretary. The second one is for you to read from the same page with the Chairpersons of all our committees, led by the Senator for Kiambu and Nyeri counties. They have been fining governors. You should pronounce a fine against the responsible Cabinet Secretary. When you look at this letter, it is written by the Chief of Staff, Mr. Joseph Busiega. I have never seen in my entire life of Parliament, a situation where a stranger in a Ministry who we do not understand, is addressing the Senate or Parliament for that matter. If for whatever reason the Cabinet Secretary is unable to write this letter, it should have been written by the accounting officer – the Principal Secretary. Who is this fellow? I know he comes from my home in Malaba, but that is for purposes of doing funerals at home, weddings and all manner of things."
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"content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, for purposes of communication, the Cabinet Secretary must be warned from allowing strangers to address this Senate. A Chief of Staff is a very small thing and he is not an accounting officer. The accounting officer is the Principal Secretary whose appointment was approved by Parliament."
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"content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank you. We are guided and we will not lament. There are two issues. Firstly, on the matter raised by Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale on who can address the Senate and who cannot, you will need to protect this House and its committees. The other thing is that when the Governor for Nairobi City County decided to not appear before the Committee on Roads and Transportation, he sent an acting officer to write to the committee, informing them that he could not attend the meeting. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "Secondly, this is likely to happen again and again. You sat as the SBC and agreed that the Cabinet Secretary for Gender, Culture, the Arts and Heritage was supposed to appear at 11.00 a.m. However, if we take what the Senate Majority Leader said and we have no reason to doubt, it now appears that there was further communication from the Cabinet Secretary that she will appear from noon. Mr. Speaker, Sir, for guidance, how was that communication done? Was it in writing or it was just a conversation and it was agreed that she will come at noon? We do not lament because we want to lament. We lament because we are in trouble. If we find ourselves in this situation, what do we do? Did she write to say that she will come at noon or did she call and say that she will come at noon? What then will stop the other Cabinet Secretaries from altering the time they will appear by just placing a call to your office of the Office of the Majority Leader and saying, good people, I was supposed to come at 9.00 a.m., but I will be appearing at noon or at 11.00 a.m. The House can do whatever it wants to do and wait for me to appear at noon. Mr. Speaker, Sir, let us correct this. I thank you."
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"content": " Sen. Kathuri."
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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to comment on this matter. I sit as the Chairperson of the Liaison Committee and all Chairpersons discussed and realized that we have a backlog of Statements and Petitions. There are about 400 Statements that have not been responded to. The Petitions are more than 20. The Chairpersons are complaining that Cabinet Secretaries are not honouring meetings when they are requested to appear before the committees. If this trend continues, then the work of the Senate will be paralyzed. For the Senate Majority Leader, if this is the trend, then we should do away with this Question Time, so that we can divert to our usual business. This is because the Senate cannot sit without the Executive. This was the brainchild of the Chief Executive of this Republic when he was elected, none other than the President. If this issue is not working for the Senate and the National Assembly, then there is no need of having this Question Time by the Cabinet Secretaries."
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"content": "Let us survive the way we have been surviving, so that Senators can work even on Petitions in this House. I will request Director Njenga Ruge to give you some time, so that you listen to us."
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