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"content": "The fact that we really need to create a system that will ensure that the Government is lean has been stated very eloquently by the contributors. It is agreed that it will reduce wastage of resources and ensure that there is a clear focus on public policy. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to focus on the current situation as compared to the expected situation tomorrow. This Coalition Government has a bloated Cabinet that is, of course, based on the National Accord to ensure that both sides of the political divide, namely ODM and the PNU Alliance, are represented, and that this country gets back on track to focus on development. However, the experience that we have had for the last one-and-and-half years is a manifestation of a disjointed, ill-supervised and very malfunctional National Accord. The simple question that was before the House even yesterday on the Mau Forest Complex is not clear whether it is the Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources or the Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife that is supposed to handle it. I go to functions across the country. As late as last Saturday, I was in Konoin Constituency, after Kilgoris, and I was being referred to as the Assistant Minister for Gender and Sports. There is not a clear demarcation in the peopleâs mind as to whether we are in charge of the youth, who are aged between 16 and 35 years, or whether our mandate, as the Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs, includes children below the age of 16 years. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have various instances of misappropriation of public policy. The Public Officer Ethics Act, and the National Accord itself, in relation to the role of the Prime Minister to co-ordinate and supervise Government operations, is sufficient reason to instigate our logic to support this Motion. For instance, there have been issues critical to this country about mismanagement in various Ministries. I conclude, in my own understanding, that the Office of the Prime Minister is today incapable to ably co-ordinate and supervise Ministries because the Ministriesâ very existence is not representative of the focus that is necessary to have the precision of a surgeon and the focus of a pilot towards Vision 2030. Therefore, I hope that during the Committee Stage of this Bill, we will have the opportunity to move amendments to provide for the emphasis to have professionals harvested externally to participate in Government. That way, we will minimise the wastage that we experience today. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as an Assistant Minster of Government, I am sometimes unable to officiate or even represent the interests of my constituents because I am involved in a lot of other issues. Just last week, we had a Question for my Ministry. All of us in my Ministry were engaged in public duty. My Ministry was sanctioned, and we hope to clear that today. Due to our involvement in Mukurweini, Mogotio and Kathiani as Ministers in this Government, we are sometimes unable to execute a mandate that is constitutional and necessary to ensure that the Business of this House proceeds in a way that will make our focus towards Vision 2030 succeed. We have issues of rationalisation of public policy, Executive briefs and operationalisation of the Public Officer Ethics Act. For instance, the fact that there is a lot of ethnic and regional interest in the Cabinet as constituted today, the President and the Prime Minister are unable to execute a basic law, that is the Public Officer Ethics Act. They are also unable to execute with courage, a law that calls on a retired President not to engage in active politics. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, today, we hear the former President addressing villagers in his ethnic backyard â not in Nyanza or the large Rift Valley or Coast Provinces. He is"
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