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    "id": 1028493,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "South Imenti, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kathuri Murungi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I also want to join my colleagues in weeping. That is because we feel frustrated by the Executive and yet, we are supposed to oversight it as a House. I raised a Question here three months ago about a bridge that was swept away by floods in May. The two wards are still disconnected since the bridge on that tarmac road was swept away. I have tried to follow up on this matter with the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing and the Clerk asked me to check for my Question in the Table Office. We thought by raising these questions, it is an opportunity for the CSs or PSs to come before the committees so that we can ventilate and make them understand the problems that our people are having. We have the Leader of the Majority Party who is supposed to link the Executive and the Legislature. I think the CSs have relaxed in the last few months and I want to ask the Leader of the Majority Party to reign in on those officers. When Hon. Duale was around, he used to summon them. He even called them physically in our presence when we went to ask him why they were not appearing before us. I want to ask Hon. Kimunya, who is the Leader of the Majority Party, to take this responsibility seriously and ensure that we oversight the Executive and execute our mandate to the best of our ability. Thank you."
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