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    "id": 1211479,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Gichugu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gichimu Githinji",
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    "content": "The other aspect is the amendment of the Standing Orders through the Procedure and House Rules Committee, which will also come to this House for approval, so that Cabinet Secretaries can come and answer questions before this House. We have so many questions that lapsed because Cabinet Secretaries were not available. They sent juniors to the committees and were ineffective. This time round, any Cabinet Secretary who does not answer a question within reasonable time will face the House and tell Members why he or she has not answered their questions. I had many questions about roads in my constituency. I have one road which I call the “belt of Gichugu” which covers all the wards in Gichugu Constituency. I asked a Question in the last Session. Once a Session ends, all the questions that had been asked lapse. So, I have to start it all over again. If the Cabinet Secretaries had been obligated to come to this House, probably that would have been sorted out and my people from Gichugu Constituency would have been aware of what is happening with their roads, water, electricity and many other development projects that they are looking upon me to follow up. Citizens rarely know what happens in parliamentary committees. However, in this particular situation, the citizens or Kenyans will follow up on matters before this House."
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