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    "id": 1214694,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "North Imenti, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Rahim Dawood",
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    "content": "get our act together so that nobody can again go to the Supreme Court and ask for this House be dissolved. We have been told that cabinet secretaries appearing in Parliament will not assist in any way and the committees will be moribund. That is not true at all because if the cabinet secretaries come, they will not answer all the Questions. The work of the committees will still go on the way it is. I remember in the previous Parliament we changed the Standing Orders and accepted that cabinet secretaries would come and answer Questions. At that time, I remember the Attorney-General, because I was in the Procedure and House Rules Committee, refused and said that by doing that, we would be demeaning the cabinet secretaries and that work would not go on. I agree with the President’s recommendation that we need the cabinet secretaries in Parliament so that we can question them. When they bring answers, we will interrogate them to know if they are telling the truth. Many of the Questions which are asked today regarding security or the education sector, if cabinet secretaries were here, it would be very easy to get answers. It does not mean that every Member of Parliament would ask a Question, but many Members who have similar Questions could get answers. We need to entrench the NG-CDF, the NGAAF and the Senate Oversight Fund in the Constitution. We all know and whoever has served in Parliament knows the importance of the NG-CDF and the NGAAF. We cannot be expected to cede our authority on the NG-CDF to the counties. We do not even know how prudently counties use the money they are allocated. We will do whatever it takes to entrench the NG-CDF and the NGAAF in the Constitution."
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