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    "content": "Thank you. Hon. (Prof.) Ogutu you are absolutely right, but this is the disadvantage of this system- which we have talked about for the longest time since adoption of the 2010 Constitution and when the 11th Parliament came being. Indeed, I can only just suggest. Even if we wanted now, just look at Article 152(3), which says that Cabinet secretaries who shall not be members of parliament. Why do you not propose an amendment, that cabinet secretaries who shall be ex-officio members of parliament? Immediately you will have resolved the issue because they will be here as ex-officio members through your own rules because as it is, the floor of the House is a hallowed place. It should not be contaminated by the presence of un-elected executive officials. This is hallowed ground. That is the rule, but if you amended the Constitution, that Article 152 Clause 3, to say that they will be ex-officio members... It is just one statement and it will address these problems we have been facing here. Hon. (Prof) Ogutu you have raised a very valid point, but Hon. Mwathi, the Chair of the Committee, has been given a statement to come and read in response to the issue raised by Hon. Kaunya. He has no way of knowing whether it is true that the police officer fired into the air. He has no way of knowing that because he does not work for the Kenya police, neither does he work with the Ministry of Interior and Co-ordination of National Government. However, if the Cabinet Secretary was here, you know I am sure Hon. Kaunya would have been firing at him and I would have been here telling him to respond and demonstrate to us how that police officer was shooting. Since the Cabinet Secretary is not here and there is nobody from the Executive here, then it is the chairperson. Will the chairperson know how the firing happened? You know these are some of the shortcomings within the 2010 Constitution. Hon. Millie Odhiambo!"
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