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    "id": 1224355,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1224355/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Methu",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Methu John Muhia",
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    "content": "I speak this as a Chairperson of a Committee that deals with five Cabinet Secretaries (CSs) and gets statements for five or six different State Departments that I am supposed to give answers to. I support this Motion. I am a happy and firm believer that His Excellency the President, Dr. William Ruto, has followed through what he promised when he appeared before Parliament, when he was making his inaugural address. He promised that to ensure we play our oversight role on the Executive, he would ensure a mechanism to have his CSs come to Parliament, so that they answer questions from Members of Parliament. Article One of the Constitution says that all sovereign power belongs to the people. They can exercise it directly or through their elected representatives. We are the elected representatives. Therefore, when we have been given an opportunity to be asking questions directly to the Executive and from the CSs, then we should ensure that we build that framework and have Standing Orders that will support it."
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