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    "id": 1211452,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "As I have said, the President makes reference to various issues. The issue of the NG- CDF is completely out of order. There is nothing unconstitutional about it. Of course, the most interesting proposal, which we take with a pinch of salt and is indeed a mockery, is any intention to establish the Office of Official Opposition or the Office of the Leader of the Official Opposition. The 2010 Constitution was explicitly clear that we must do away with the Kenya African National Union (KANU) era hangovers. I see that quite a number of my colleagues could still be having KANU era hangovers. We have moved on. We have adopted a presidential system where Parliament takes up the role of checking or overseeing the national government. That we cannot abrogate. If we leave it, we have lost it. We need to blame ourselves. As I conclude, because time has run out, it is the issue of the Ministers or Cabinet Secretaries coming to the House. We have complained continuously that to get 290 Members plus Women Representatives to speak in this House is not possible. Asking a Cabinet Secretary to come here and spend one or two hours and all Members asking questions will have no chance to respond, that is why the Leader of the Minority Party warned that we stand a chance of weakening Committees and later rendering them useless. For those few remarks, we note that the memorandum is just cosmetic and has no value to the records of the House. Thank you."
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