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    "id": 1267858,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Seki",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13598,
        "legal_name": "Samuel Seki Kanar",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I also wish to contribute to this issue on the Floor of the House. In our Committee on Trade, Industrialisation and Tourism, we have invited the Cabinet Secretary for Investments, Trade and Industry but he has never appeared. Equally, I am a Member of the Committee on Education and the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and National Treasury has always been absent on issues that involve Kenyans. Retired teachers of this Republic are retired and they have never received any pension for quite a number of years. These are very pertinent issues. We really need to have very punitive penalties to these Cabinet ministers who are not appearing before this House and even Committees. I do not think we were wrong to change the Standing Orders. The President himself instructed that Cabinet Secretaries must appear before this House. I do not think we want to continue belabouring this point and even talking to them. We just need to penalise them and let them feel the consequences. Otherwise, we are dissatisfied on what they are doing and the last minute notices that they give us. We have processes. This is a House of order with its own process and plans. I do not think they should come here to disrupt the entire process of the Senate. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we want to support you to penalise these Cabinet Secretaries who refuse to appear here. It may even call for summoning the Prime Cabinet Secretary here to answer as to why his Cabinet Secretaries are not appearing before this House. Thank you."
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