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    "id": 1219060,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tiaty, KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kassait Kamket",
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    "content": "Constitution without knowing that that moment would arrive, when it did, they did not know what to do. Indeed, the late Michuki went ahead and confessed that all they were after was the removal of the former President Moi from power. They disguised their intentions in constitutional amendment proposals. Now we find ourselves in a situation where we have a mongrel of a Constitution. As leadership, we have to be very careful when we talk about the Constitution. There is a saying that you do not have to fix it if it is working. The Constitution we inherited at independence was working very well. The hybrid system had served this country for so long and so well. I have the experience of having been a member of staff of this National Assembly. I have observed, from the Hansard Box up there, members of the Executive and Ministers come to answer Questions on the Floor of this House. At that time Ministers were also MPs. There was no better and accountable system of government. What did we do? We went ahead and borrowed some systems from the United States of America or I do not know where. We created a Parliament that speaks to itself. What do we do in this Parliament? We speak to ourselves. Nobody is listening to us. Cabinet Secretaries are busy with their meetings. There is no better authority than the authority of the Speaker making orders to a Cabinet Secretary when he or she is seated here with us and listening to those orders. When Chairpersons of committees come to answer Questions, what are we doing? We are speaking to ourselves. We are making a mockery of representation. For instance, how can I ask Hon. Cherorot, Member for Kipkelion East, a parliamentary Question because he is a Chairman of a Committee? When I follow up with him on a supplementary question he has no answer at all. I think it is time we brought Cabinet Secretaries to Parliament. That is so that we as the elected representatives of the people hold them to account and the Speaker sitting on your Chair makes orders to that Cabinet Secretary. That way, any matter will be resolved; whichever matter the Member is raising."
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