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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": " Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for this chance. This is a very straightforward matter. If I listened to Sen. Cherarkey well, he had two issues in his Statement. First, is the content of the letter that the Cabinet Secretary wrote to this House. You are a Member of the Senate Business Committee (SBC) and you know that in the SBC, we had very serious concerns about the tone and the language that he used in his letter. I want to assure Sen. Cherarkey that when the Cabinet Secretary, Hon. Ababu Namwamba, finally appears before the Senate, before he responds to any Question, we will first take him on regarding the contents of that letter. So, that is a separate topic. I do not have a problem with his failure to appear today because he wrote in good time and said that he is out of the country. When we sat down as the SBC, we agreed to grant him the opportunity to appear next week. The only other problem I have is that there is an increasing habit by our Cabinet Secretaries, where when they are invited to appear before the House, they use very junior officers to respond to us and tell us that they will not be appearing. What is so difficult for a Cabinet Secretary to go through his letter from Parliament and respond to us? When we write, we do not write to their principal secretaries or the chief administrators in their Ministries. We write to them. I agree with Sen. Cherarkey that CS Adan Duale, a long serving legislator of great repute, has a lot of mentorship to do in the Cabinet. He needs to mentor many of his colleagues, not necessarily this Cabinet Secretary that we are talking about, whose letter to us I can see has been responded to by the Principal Secretary. That is still not satisfactory. However, there are others who do even worse."
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