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    "id": 1219953,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mumias East, DAP-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Salasya",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. The Memorandum by the President seeking to allow Cabinet Secretaries to come to the House is a good idea. However, it will only be an opportunity for the Leader of the Majority Party and those who call themselves “veterans” to showcase themselves. The best thing is for the President to give Parliamentary Committees powers to summon Cabinet Secretaries and Principal Secretaries. As Committees, we can then table our reports in this House. That might be better. Allowing Cabinet Secretaries to come to the House will be a show for the Leader of the Majority Party and the Leader of the Minority Party. In that case, I do not support the idea. I support that the various Committees be allowed to summon Cabinet Secretaries to respond to Questions, so that we table the reports in the House. I support the idea of creating the Office of the Leader of Official Opposition because it was in the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI). I still support it 100 per cent. The NG-CDF has been of great importance. We do not have issues of ballooning wage bills in terms of NG-CDF. The people who work in the respective NG-CDF committees only rely on allowances. The NG-CDF has been felt in mashinani areas. Enshrining the NG-CDF and the NGAAF in the Constitution is the best course of action for us to take. Kenyans should be made aware of the NGAAF so that they know the responsibilities of Women Representatives. Some people do not know what their roles are. Even when a Woman Representative decides to misuse the funds, people in mashinani areas cannot know. Those are my comments. I have done so well today because I am also performing so well out there. I am doing so well in the House, as you have heard. Thank you."
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