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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Westlands, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Tim Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Timothy Wanyonyi Wetangula",
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    "content": "Civil Service being weakened so much that it is even undermining the performance of the Government. When you look previously under the regime of President Kenyatta and President Moi, the Civil Service was very vibrant and it was the reason we never had these divisive politics. In many countries even when an election is going on, the running of government is not disrupted because we have a civil service that is intact, strong and one that can manage the running of government even without the political arm of the government. However, in this country we have seen even when we go to an election, everything comes to a standstill and so strengthening the Civil Service and other independent constitutional agencies is an important pointer. Hon. Speaker, we have also looked at remodeling the parliamentary system by introducing or bringing back the Executive in the House. This is also going to add the confidence of the representation in this House. When we used to have ministers here, when members asked Questions they were answered and the ministers were there to face them. Today since Cabinet Secretaries are not members of the House, sometimes we ask Questions and they are not taken seriously. Sometimes we have concerns that we raise because we are the representatives of the people and we find that these issues are taken very lightly. This is one of the things that were supported by the people when the taskforce went around the country. People wanted the Cabinet Ministers to be drawn from the Members of Parliament and we know what that means. It means that the ministers were more effective when they were in the House. They were more responsive and more accountable when they were members of this august House. Hon. Deputy Speaker, this is a document that has highlighted so many important things. We will miss the point when people just point out small weaknesses in the document and make them look like the Bill is addressing only small issues or a section of the population."
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