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    "id": 1200137,
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    "speaker_name": "Kacheliba, KUP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Titus Lotee",
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    "content": "get an extra one or two more nominees beyond the seven for women, which means that we need to have trust and faith in them. That is one of the requests. The other request is to ask the team that is going to vet the CSs to consider critically those nominees that are going to fall on the Standing Order that is going to be changed on the Floor of this House. The President asked that we need to change a particular Standing Order so that the CSs can directly come to Parliament to answer Questions. It is very easy for us to say that we are going to change the Standing Orders so that they can come here. I know that the practice is that immediately they sit, they grow horns and start sending their representatives, as the Leader of the Majority Party said. I want this House to not only consider the characters of the persons, but also to look at them and know the kind of people that they are going to vet into this House. I have sat in the Executive some time back, and I know that it is very easy for a CS to travel abroad and consequently send representatives. We want the Standing Orders to be followed to the letter, and at the vetting point, I want that question be set before each of the nominees. They should all be asked if they are willing to come personally to this House to answer Questions, or whether they are just going to send representatives, like many of them would want to, when they become the bosses and not the servants of the people. I also hope that the Committee that is going to vet these CSs will look at the issues that are affecting this country. Personally, I come from Kacheliba Constituency. Hon. Members, I am from a new constituency in this country. Kacheliba is a Constituency that was established in 1972, when most of you already had their constituencies formed in Kenya. I am also a new MP who was elected in a by-election within the main election, in that when you had your elections on 9th August, I did mine after 9th August; that is, on 29th August. That basically means that I am a product of a by-election within an election, something that is so unique in this country. Just to bring you to speed, by its name, Kacheliba is a place where the colonialists used to sit and detain people who could not pay. ‘Ka’ means ‘the home of,’ and ‘cheliba’ means"
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