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    "id": 127107,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Otichilo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 131,
        "legal_name": "Wilber Ottichilo Khasilwa",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving this opportunity to support this Bill. This is a very important Bill; it is a Bill that should have been brought to this House 46 years ago. Our Constitution gives provision for this Parliament to determine the number of Ministers that the Executive should appoint. But for many years, we have abdicated our role. So, I want to take this opportunity to thank the hon. Member for Turkana Central, Mr. Ethuro for bringing this Bill. I want to congratulate him for that. Secondly, I want to note that given that free time that is given to the Executive, we have seen a situation where we have a very bloated Government which is spending a lot of money in Recurrent Expenditure. So, with the approval of this Bill, this will curtail the expenditure, particularly the recurrent. The other issue that is of great concern and important is the issue of integrity of the Ministers we have in the Government. We need to have Ministers of high integrity. We need to have Ministers who can be vetted in this House as in other Parliaments where Ministers are vetted because we have, in our case, as my colleagues have said, Ministers who have various cases in court, but they are still Ministers. This is an issue that is of great concern. We need Ministers of high integrity. As regards education, it is important that any Member appointed in any Government must have minimum degree training; anything less than that cannot warrant somebody to become a Minister. A Minister is somebody who represents our Government in key decision and policy making processes. Therefore, he must be somebody who is knowledgeable. Also, on the issue of appointment of Ministers, we must look into the issue of appointing Ministers with competence in their respective Ministries. As of now, you will note that we have many Ministers who have been appointed in different Ministries and they have no idea or real qualifications or training in those disciplines. So, when it comes to discussing or articulating issues for those Ministries, they find themselves at a loss. So, it is important to put in place a system that"
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