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    "content": "what kind of response is being given so that whatever interrogation that may be required, it is done at that point. Hon. Charles Kilonzo, you are aware that you adopted the presidential system without any serious understanding about it. It is not you, Hon. Charles Kilonzo, but Kenyans. One must ask themselves why the Americans adopted a presidential system. Historically, they wanted to make a break with the king. They totally and completely wanted to do away with the monarch. They did not want anything about a parliamentary system where the Government would also be sitting in the House. So, Americans wanted to do a total break. In our case, Kenyans got excited and wanted to also break away from the Executive while we still require Members of Parliament to rise and ask Questions, but ministers are not here. We have that kind of difficultly. Hon. Charles Kilonzo, Hon. Makau and other chairpersons also represent constituencies and they do not sit in the Cabinet. If they were ministers sitting in the Cabinet, then you can say that they cannot come to ask Questions on the Floor of the House because they can resolve their matters at Cabinet meetings with their Cabinet colleagues. However, the chairpersons, including the Leader of the Majority Party, represent constituencies. He does not sit in the Cabinet. So, if there is an issue touching on water or schools in his constituency, he has a right, in his representative role, to ask it here because here is where he sits. Surely, let us not block the chairmen from asking Questions while representing their constituents. I am not aware that Hon. Makau introduces himself as a minister while in the village. That is something I think he can deal with out there, but, of course, he looks like he could be a minister. Hon. Makau, you want to say you do not do that?"
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