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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity. I join the Senate Majority Leader in registering our disapproval and disappointment of this unbecoming behaviour. There is the Powers and Privileges Act, which allows a Cabinet Secretary to fail to honour this kind of invitation. The condition is clear that it is only ‘with the leave of the President’. The Minister for Labour and Social Protection remembered that, she informed the SBC and that was okay. We do not care that Hon. (Dr.) Mutua and Hon. Nakhumicha are greenhorns in serving the Executive and have never found their way into this Parliament and, therefore, they might not be knowing the import of these issues. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the catchword is ‘Parliament’, not Senate or the National Assembly. I therefore request you to liaise with your counterpart in the National Assembly so that Parliament takes a position that any Cabinet Secretary who does not honour an invitation, will lose the opportunity of the business of their Ministry being processed in Parliament, until such a time they convince us that they are apologetic. There are many Kenyans who are dying to serve this country as Cabinet Secretaries. If people want to have joyriders, let them have those joyriders outside Parliament and the Executive. The country requires to be pushed so that we can deliver where we are. We cannot do it when we have people who take trips as a priority to transacting Government business."
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