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    "id": 1220178,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugenya, MDG",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Ochieng’",
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        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
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    "content": " That is what I have done. I did it the way it appears on the Order Paper. The Clerks-at-Table are confusing me. The point I am trying to make is that with so many committees – about 40 of them– it has been very difficult to track and follow up on what happens in them based on what the new Constitution brought, that every Cabinet Secretary or Principal Secretary should appear in Committees and sometimes they appear at cross-purposes. It has been difficult to ensure that Members of Parliament are able to hold the Executive to account because of this situation. You have seen laxity on the side of Cabinet Secretaries because we have no sanctions. A Cabinet Secretary comes before Committee with incomplete answers and there is nothing you can do. You cannot send him away or chase him. Before, if Ministers appeared before the House with half-baked or incomplete answers, the Speaker had the power to send them away not to appear in the House for two weeks, three weeks, or even a month. Now we do not have a chance. A Cabinet Secretary appears before a Committee, provides half-baked answers, and we have no recourse. We do not know what to do. Sometimes Kenyans do not even know the Cabinet 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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