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    "id": 1211527,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1211527/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Irene Mayaka",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
        "slug": "john-mbadi"
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    "content": "committees do is to question cabinet secretaries who appear before them. If we start bringing cabinet secretaries here, committees will become irrelevant. The BBI proposal was that 50 per cent of our cabinet secretaries ought to be Members of Parliament. Through this process, it would be much easier for us to question cabinet secretaries and for them to be held accountable. The other process the President is proposing is, in my view, a back door and a shortcut towards bringing back the BBI to Parliament. That should not be the case. On the Senate Oversight Fund, I agree with my colleagues. Ideally, this should be the Parliamentary Oversight Fund. Our colleagues here brought a very good Motion that was committed to a committee. I think we should follow that process. The proposals in Article 34(a) to (d), which cover the NG-CDF, the NGAAF and additional funds, including the Senate Oversight Fund, is something that we should give priority. We should enact it into law to become the Parliamentary Oversight Fund that covers both the Senate and the National Assembly. I conclude by saying that we should, as a House, not be encouraging such very pertinent constitutional reforms to come through opinions and memos. We will be setting a very dangerous precedent in this country. This ought to follow the right procedure. I encourage Members of the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee, as they proceed to look at this matter, that it does not matter whether you are from the Kenya Kwanza or the Azimio side, they should do the right thing. Set the right precedent. As my good senior, Hon. Governor James Orengo, once said, the Government eats its own children. This thing will one day eat you if you are not careful with it. I submit."
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