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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dadaab, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Maalim Farah",
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    "content": "Today, we have cabinet secretaries who we do not know by name. The Member of Kwanza Constituency is an old Member like myself though he pretends to be young by dyeing his hair. We used to have all the cabinet ministers on our walls in primary school. We knew the names of all the ministers. The ordinary person in the village knew that if there were issues with education, the minister must do better than what he was doing then. When delegations came to Gatundu, the ordinary people used to complain about ministers who were sleeping on their job. The ordinary people would state their problems in education, roads and infrastructure, public works and the local government. That is why the late Hon. Mudamba Mudavadi was famous. He was bigger than life because local government was where all the counties were represented, namely, municipalities, county councils, town councils and urban councils. My position is that we cannot bring twenty strangers in the House and call them cabinet secretaries. You do not have the power to censure them and tell them how to do their job. How are you going to censure a cabinet secretary who does not come with a satisfactory answer or who is sleeping on their job? Based on the proceedings of the House at that time, we have to admit that we made mistakes. We borrowed from the German Länder, the Americans and the British and tried to put it together for it to work. We always want to borrow. We must come up with our own narrative. It is like saying you have a car with an engine of an Audi, a Mercedes Chassis and the electrical system of a Toyota. The car cannot take you far. This Constitution is similar to that. We need to revisit that. As far as the issue of the NGAAF is concerned, I have been advocating for something similar to that from the beginning. I proposed that instead of setting aside seats for the ladies who are our mothers and sisters, give them the affirmative action. Help them to win the elections. Set aside money for them and then they will be able to compete. Given the right opportunity, the men might become the minority in this House. That is the way to do it. Because of the historical marginalisation of our ladies in politics and public life, we must give them an The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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