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"content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for protecting me. I know these Members know what I am talking about. Many other Kenyans attend job interviews and perform in different ways. We all react in different ways to shock, when in situations and environments you are not used to. Without seeming to be speaking for anybody, the fate of all the 24 nominees submitted to us by His Excellency the President now rests in your hands. It is also worth noting that we are considering for approval Cabinet Secretary Nominees who, if approved by this House, and upon being sworn in, will now assume the offices of the Cabinet. When his Excellency addressed this House, he said that he intended to ask the House to consider amending the Standing Orders to allow these Cabinet Secretaries to appear in this House. Hon. Speaker, they will be sitting next to you, in the civil servants’ bench, to answer Questions and Statements from Members of Parliament and Kenyans. This is so that as a people’s representative, we will hold all these Cabinet Secretaries to account and ensure they are serving the interests of the people we represent in the offices they hold. Let me take this opportunity, even as I beg Members to approve these names, to tell the Cabinet Secretary Nominees, God willing and if approved, that let us not witness the hubris and arrogance that we witnessed under the Cabinet Secretaries that served in the previous regime. They must appreciate that they have been bestowed the honour to serve in high offices to serve the people of Kenya. As they come to this House, they must appreciate they are coming to appear before the people’s representatives. When a Cabinet Secretary is called to come and answer Questions in this House, he is not coming to answer to Hon. Junet Mohammed or Hon. Ruku, Member for Mbeere North. They are either answering Questions to the people of Suna East or the people of Mbeere North, not the Members. We shall treat them with the decorum and respect that they deserve but they must treat the people of Kenya with a higher respect, and answer Questions and Statements that are of concern to the people of Kenya without the arrogance we saw in the last regime. We must take this opportunity and we must tell them from this Floor that the reason the President has implored this House to amend our Standing Orders is to allow Cabinet Secretaries to appear in this House to answer to Questions and Statements; to articulate Government’s policy and to enhance accountability in Government. President William Ruto, as I said the other day, does not need to speak about corruption. He will act on it. Any Cabinet Secretary who exercises his authority in a way that will benefit himself individually will only have himself to blame. President William Ruto will not be there to protect any of these Cabinet Secretaries should they dip their hands in the cookie jar belonging to Kenyans. I beg the Members who are shouting to stop. I think they have just came The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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