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    "id": 1028487,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyando, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jared Okelo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. It is true that the CSs we have in this country treat this House quite disdainfully. We think something needs to be done. I remember in one of your rulings a while back, you talked about censure, which is our mandate in this House. As you have correctly said, we do not just ask these questions for the sake of it. We ask them on behalf of the people we represent. It is quite interesting how they mellow when they appear before us to be given those jobs. But immediately they assume those jobs, they discard everything about this Parliament. That is why we are saying we have a window to correct this as proposed in the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI). We will have them here with us and if questions arise, they will be asked right here and then. My brother Hon. Mbadi has clearly said that, at some point, he was answering questions on behalf of the then Prime Minister in the 10th Parliament. This is what we need to have. I have asked questions before in this House that were referred to the relevant committees. But up to now, with some of them going up to four months, I have not received any answers. It will be very different if we have the CSs appearing in this House. That is why it is a travesty for anyone who is trying to fight BBI at this point in time, when an amicable solution has been presented to us. Let us seize that moment and run away with it. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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