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    "id": 127077,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kioni",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, he was not here yesterday and he is now in the House. Welcome back, Waziri. I think the issue of qualification is also important. We were out recently and I came across a Minister in this country. What the Minister did in the conference that we were was really embarrassing to this country. Before long, the Minister found himself in the wrong place and went shopping. The Minister was not there when we were required to make interventions on behalf of the country. This is because one feels inadequate when he or she sits among people who know their fields very well. When we say that one needs a university degree or its equivalent for him or her to be useful in the Cabinet, it is coming from a point of knowledge. We are informed by what we have already seen. Again, we have Ministers here who feel inadequate in the presence of Assistant Ministers, and this is not useful to this country because we cannot get value for our money and services. This also makes Kenyans not to be served well. Again, the issue of having a limit of 90 days within which the President must fill a vacant position is important because these vacancies have been used in the past to create some anxiety and perhaps, buy loyalty from Members of Parliament. It is important that we know that within 90 days this positions must be filled, we move on as a country and do what we were elected to do. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also concur that Cabinet positions should come from outside Parliament. Although the Constitution states that one must be a Member of Parliament in order to be appointed a Cabinet Minister, it is important that we move towards that direction where we have the Cabinet coming from outside Parliament, so that we do not have Members of Parliament who are appointed to the Cabinet and the first thing they do is to serve their areas of representation as opposed to the bigger picture that should be carried by a Member of the Cabinet. It is also important that the Cabinet is composed of 24 members drawn from outside Parliament. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, since many of the things I will say have been said, I need not repeat them. I beg to support this Bill."
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