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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "In the past, we had CSs who were extremely busy doing personal businesses. They forgot the Constitution specifically forbids that. If I can find that one quickly. Article 77(1) of the Constitution reads- “A full-time State officer shall not participate in any other gainful employment” Madam Temporary Speaker, what we have had in the past is that Cabinet Secretaries have not spent time mastering the things that have given them that position and the facts about their Ministries. The Cabinet Secretaries have been totally dependent on the Principal Secretaries (PS). You go to their offices and all you hear is, have you asked the PS about this? Does the PS know about this? Why? This is because they are directors of personal businesses. They are owners and partners of personal businesses. They have a lot of time to spend doing their own things other than the reason why they were given those positions. Madam Temporary Speaker, I remember personally serving as an Assistant Minister in the Office of the President. There used to be a Cabinet Secretary who would be saying there is this and this meeting, I will be going to State House, so you chair those meetings and I will come at around 5.00 p.m. to the office. That particular Cabinet Secretary - and he was later on fired - would not be in State House. He would go to attend to his own meetings and businesses. Of course, he became a very wealthy man at the end of the term. These are the people we want to make sure they are not in public service. If people like those were being grilled as it should be, because in those days, we used to cover for them. It was us, the Assistant Ministers, who used to come and take the fire. However, in this particular case, we have said that Cabinet Secretaries are the ones who must come in person. I want to urge all of us to take this opportunity to attend and it will be bipartisan. There is no way that we shall support people here even if we are in Kenya Kwanza and United Democratic Alliance (UDA). The people who come here and they show incompetence, unpreparedness or are sleeping on the job, we shall crucify them on the Floor of this Senate. We are not going to joke with people who have been given responsibilities and some of them we competed with them and they lost but went to sit in the Cabinet. We shall not give them time here to relax. They must be prepared and know the duties that are involved in those jobs that they have been appointed to serve."
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