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"speaker_name": "Rarieda, ODM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Otiende Amollo",
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"content": "There is also the issue of cabinet secretaries in Parliament. They will be strangers. The President is not a stranger because he is allowed. The Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury comes here due to necessity because we are the budget-makers. The Cabinet Secretary does not come to the Floor of the House. He stays at the bar. If you want cabinet secretaries on the Floor of the House, you must admit them as Members of Parliament. That changes the numbers and the functions. Is it a good thing? No. First, because you will definitely weaken the committee system. Our Constitution gives committees the powers of the High Court which have never been used. Why have we not used them? If we cannot use them as 15 or 20 people sitting in a committee yet we have the power, what is the assurance that we will use them as 349 people in the House? And…"
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