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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "send their Principal Secretaries (PSs) or any other senior officers to come and tender apologies and explanation to the committee. We all understand that sometimes you may not be available for this and that reason. However, during yesterday’s meeting, and my good friend the Chair is here, there was no single representation from any of these two Ministries, not even a press officer from the Cabinet Secretaries’ offices to tell us that they are sorry because they are not available. There was nothing! I said that in a crisis moment like this, wherever the Cabinet Secretary for Petroleum and Mining was, he would have cut short his trip and come back to the country to address this issue but nothing has happened. I join Sen. Orengo in also opining that I do not think we have received any explanation even from yesterday’s proceedings that were aired live from any of these Ministries about what happened. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I heard the Cabinet Secretary for Energy saying that what he was invited for does not concern him. That is an assault on the dignity and authority of the Speaker of this House. On the day when we canvassed this matter, and the HANSARD is there to bear you out as our Speaker, the distinguished Senator from Kisumu, Rose Nyamunga, said and I quote: “Yesterday I was shocked when I got a bill of Kshs53,000 in electricity consumption, yet I have been paying around Kshs18,000 or Kshs19,000. Anytime you complain, they come to read your meter then they tell you that is what they found. What is going on in this country? It should not continue like this. Something should be done. There is a big problem in that Ministry. We know what the problem is but we are not solving it.” Then she went on. At the end of the submissions on the Floor, I requested you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, that following what Sen. Nyamunga had said and the country is bleeding and hurting because of high electricity bills and now fuel, kindly order the initiation of the two twin Cabinet Secretaries to come before the House and you did order. To vindicate the Office of the Clerk, we were told that the letters of the invitation carried the HANSARD of the day, so that each Cabinet Secretary knows what they were coming to be questioned about. So, Hon. Keter should not be allowed to say that what was on the Floor of the House and before the committee does not concern him because it squarely concerns him. Sen. Orengo has quoted repeatedly Article 153 of the Constitution. It provides that when a House of Parliament or its committees summon a Cabinet Secretary, it does not matter on what matter. All this House needs to do is to invite or summon a Cabinet Secretary and they are duty-bound to even miss Cabinet meetings and come to Parliament to answer to the representatives of the people of Kenya. When every Cabinet Secretary takes the Oath of Office, they say in Kiswahili:"
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