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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am supporting the Senate as the Upper House. The Senate will emanate from a bigger constituency, mostly the counties which are far much bigger than the current constituencies. It will play a cardinal role; that of even impeaching the President. Therefore, we, as the House of Representatives, namely, the National Assembly, need to accord the Senate the right position it requires as the Upper House of governance. I would like to comment about the Executive. There is a very clear separation of power between the Executive, the Legislature and the Judiciary. Under the current system, it has been extremely difficult for Ministers to survive the following elections because they are so much committed doing Government business to the detriment of their voters. When it comes to the following elections, most of them lose their seats. I wholly support the separation of power between the Executive and the Legislature. Therefore, I support the idea that Members of Parliament should not be appointed to the Cabinet. If it is the wish of the President to appoint any Member of Parliament to the Cabinet, then that Member should vacate this Parliamentary seat and join the Executive. I want to appreciate one centre of power which is well articulated in the draft Constitution. It took a lot of time and pain for Kenyans to really ensure that they have only one centre of power, namely, the presidency. We are currently in a Grand Coalition Government, where we have the Prime Minister and the President. We are able to see that the working of the Government is not smooth. With only one centre of power, all the issues pertaining to the execution of the executive authority will be well articulated. Therefore, I want to wholly support the separation of power between the Executive and the other arms of Government. I have only one issue with the absence of Assistant Ministers. The clause on the Executive eliminates the position of Assistant Ministers. It will be extremely difficult, especially in this House when Ministers are so busy elsewhere, maybe in the Cabinet or representing the Government in foreign countries and there will be nobody to take care of their parliamentary duties here. I do not think the Permanent Secretaries will be permitted to come and answer Questions here. So, I strongly believe that there is need to have some deputy Ministers to assist the Ministers in case they are not available to execute their day to day responsibilities, mostly in this House. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we, Christians are pro-life. We strongly believe that this contentious clause on abortion should be relooked at. I wish to call upon my colleagues in this House to relook at this clause, so that we can address the issues which are being propagated by our Christian brothers. We cannot afford to have a clash with the Christians in this country. I would like to recommend that all the clauses pertaining to abortion be relooked at afresh; bring amendments so that we can support the same. The Budget of this country is presented in this House in June and debated almost up to August. It will be extremely difficult for us to go to an election or dissolve this House one or two months before August. This simply means that if we will go for"
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