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    "id": 1211224,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kacheliba, KUP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Titus Lotee",
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    "content": " Thank you for allowing me to contribute, Hon. Temporary Speaker. When the Constitution was promulgated sometime back, I strongly believed that there were some things we missed. One of them is that we moved from a parliamentary system to a presidential system. That is the reason we see a Memorandum from the President trying to re- introduce Cabinet Secretaries in this House to answer Questions. It is not wrong for us to review our Constitution. When we see that there are flaws such as these, we should be allowed to debate and correct them. I support the proposal that Cabinet Secretaries be asked to come to Parliament to address some of the concerns that Members of Parliament could be having. I know that we have the Leader of the Majority Party and the Chairpersons of the various Committees that could represent Cabinet Secretaries. However, it has been found to be ineffective. That is why we want to call Cabinet Secretaries to come personally to respond to Members’ Questions. The other thing is on the NG-CDF and the National Government Affirmative Action Fund (NGAAF). I support that we anchor them in the Constitution. There is no doubt in the minds of everybody who has spoken here that these two Funds have done some marvellous work in this country. Where I come from, Kacheliba Constituency, we have had many of our children going to school. Last evening, I launched a bursary that will support the pastoralist children of Kacheliba Constituency to a tune of over Ksh30 million. If the NG-CDF was not available in our constituencies, many children and our schools would not perform. Our country would not meet its Millennium Development Goals of ensuring that people are educated."
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