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    "content": "this one on the right course and I wish to thank them for doing a good job in publicizing this Bill. I wish they also expose those enemies of development and progress that use the benefit of their positions to continue working and doing nothing to merit their lofty positions. Hon. Members have made suggestions about gender in terms of appointments and I think these are valid arguments. These are issues that my good friends of the Kenya Women Parliamentary Association (KEWOPA) should be at liberty to look at the Bill and make proposed amendments at the Committee Stage. I will have no problem with such, including arguments like the Ministry of State for Development for Northern Kenya and other Arid Areas, on whether it should not become the Ministry for ASAL. The Official Government Responder, Mr. Lesrima, responded last week and the Government is supporting this. The Motion itself last year was responded to by the Ministry of Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs and the Government supported even at that stage. So, I want to thank everybody and I do not want to spend a lot of time on this; the Committee of the House, just to tell people who think that this has not even gone to the Committee, has already made a report which was tabled on 29th July, 2009 on the Floor of the House. All these are documents available to anybody who really cares to do their homework. One thing we refuse in this House is to come and teach people who are not willing to be taught. This is a House of debate; this is a House of ideas and this is a House where also Parliamentary business can be transacted through Bills and here is one Bill that is trying to fix our political mess. Here is one Bill that is trying to say: The place to sort your political problems is not in the Cabinet. This is a Bill that says that the rule of law; let us give the President a working number so that I do not come from my community and say that I want a certain position. Another one comes from another community and says the same. Our President will be able to say that his hands are tied by the law. There is no greater society than one that operates on the basis of law. The other mischief that we are trying to address more fundamentally – we are not denying people opportunities to be Ministers – but as we said, you need to be a Minister and a Member of the Cabinet; that when you step in this House, we can all be able to say; yes, here comes Mr. Minister because you are a Minister of distinction, integrity and a Minister who has demonstrated extreme competence and professional qualification and knowledge that you can stand, not only within our land but outside this country and the whole world recognizes that here comes a Kenyan Minister. Ministers have admitted on their own volition that even they cannot recognize themselves. Indeed, when you have a classroom for a Cabinet and you have two classrooms for the entire Cabinet that would include Assistant Ministers, then you know even when we go for voting of the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK), you need a number of streams and more presiding officers, not just one appointing authority. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, there was an issue about the Vice-Presidency and the Prime Minister and the law on this Clause is very clear. The position of the Vice- President is established by Section 15 of the Constitution. I tried to read this to the hon. Member who raised this issue but he could not understand. Let me just make the reference and I am not repeating. Section 17 says that there shall be a Cabinet consisting of the President, Vice- President and other Ministers. That Section has been amended since we came up with the"
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