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    "id": 1067093,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1067093/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "I am using my words carefully. I am talking of oversight. I am happy that it provides for party primaries which have been a thorny issue. I will not go into it. Again, I am amazed hearing lawyers saying that providing for Cabinet Secretaries (CSs) to be part of the membership of this House is unconstitutional. Please, they should go back to their first-year notes. That is called parliamentary system. It is not unconstitutional. When I came to this House, we had that governance system. It is the best system that we can have. It is the system that was in place when we threw out Hon. Kimunya. I have heard people ask how we will oversee the Executive. We oversaw Hon. Kimunya out of his position. Right now, if there is one thing that I find horrendous is that, instead of sitting in this House and dealing with our issues as Members of Parliament, you find Members lining up at Ministry Headquarters soliciting for water or road projects for their constituencies. If Cabinet Secretaries sit in this House, we will ask them directly. If they joke with us, we will throw them out just as we previously said: “Kimunya must go!” We will make such declarations against non-performing CSs since they will be MPs with us. They will listen to us. How many minutes do I have?"
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