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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kisang’",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I also rise to make comments on this. The President requested this House and the National Assembly to amend the Standing Orders, so that the Cabinet Secretaries may come to this House and answer questions, instead of the Chairpersons of Committees getting responses and coming to reply on the Floor of the House. It is deploring that this is not the first time. Even in the past, they have not been coming. Today, we expected three Cabinet Secretaries in this House to come and answer questions. I know that when most of them are invited by the National Assembly, they run there. However, when they are invited by the Senate, they look for excuses. They cannot use COP 28 as an excuse. If the President is going to Dubai and the Cabinet Secretary in charge of Environment, Climate Change and Forestry, I do not see the reason the others are going there and we are trying to have austerity measures to save money. Some of us were also invited. The climate change caucus of this House nominated some of us, but we could not go because there are no resources. How come all the Cabinet Secretaries or more than 50 per cent want to go to Dubai for COP 28 to waste resources? You need to crack the whip because these Cabinet Secretaries will not take us serious if we just let it go. They think we will excuse them. We need to fine and censure them. We should also not allow the so-called Cabinet Administrative Secretaries (CAS) to come to the House. This is because the Standing Orders are very clear that it is the Cabinet Secretaries (CS). In the Standing Orders, there is nothing like a CAS. It is the Cabinet Secretaries who are supposed to come and answer in the House. So, be firm and crack the whip. My colleague, the Chairperson of Roads and Transportation said something earlier about Governors who were Senators in this House. The Governors of Nakuru, Nairobi City and Kiambu are very notorious. When they are invited to committees, they do not come. So, we need to also ask the Chairpersons to crack the whip, fine and censure them."
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