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    "id": 1267965,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "It behooves all of us that we left Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that were supposed to be achieved in a certain period of time. This is a wonderful Motion. Many people would assume that the Senate is trying to look for the job that they want to do. However, the courts have decided. Do you remember the Supreme Court decision? I was following the proceeding earlier on because I was held up in exigencies of duty somewhere. The citations are escaping my mind, but the courts including the Supreme Court of Kenya have ruled that Senate does not only oversight Equitable Shareable Revenue. It also oversights Own- Source Revenue. I am aware that some Cabinet Secretaries fail to honour the Question Time. They think that going to the National Assembly is better than going to the Senate because they have the power of budgeting. I think that they are behind the news because the Supreme Court has ruled again that both Houses under Article 93 of Parliament, the Senate and the National Assembly participate in the budget-making process. Question time is the order of the House. Amendment of Standing Orders to that effect came from the Executive and we know the President means very well. Some Cabinet Secretaries continuously skive or fail to appear before the Senate to answer public questions. This is not Sen. Kathuri, Sen. Joe Nyutu, Sen. (Prof) Kamar or Sen. Mumma’s Questions. These are Questions that we are asking on behalf of Kenyans. We are marking those Cabinet Secretaries. When the time comes, appropriate action shall be taken against them because we cannot have a country where people fail to account for the decisions they make in office. They do not make them free of charge. We pay them to do so. Therefore, I wanted to put that into perspective, so that people do not imagine that somebody is looking for the work they want to do. Our role is anchored in the Constitution, including the role of coming back with SDGs."
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