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    "id": 1381949,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
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    "content": "I have argued elsewhere and I want to argue here as well that we are the leaders to give this House the dignity that is due to it. It will not happen if we entertain a situation where hon. Senators wake up early on Wednesday morning fully aware that they are coming to interact with CSs on matters related to dockets that this CSs had and out of three, not a single CS shows up. In other jurisdictions, the chair would stamp the authority of this House and demand that if there is a CS within the boundaries of this country, they must appear before this House in the next 30 minutes and that would happen. This is such a casual way of dealing with the Senate and yet we are not even overreaching our mandate as a Senate. Article 153 of the Constitution is clear on the decisions, responsibility and accountability of the Cabinet. It states very clearly in black and white and I read: ‘‘153 (3) A Cabinet Secretary shall attend before a committee of the National Assembly or the Senate when required by the committee and answer any question concerning a matter for which the Cabinet Secretary is responsible.’’ Mr. Speaker, Sir, that statement is as explicit as it can get. The decision by the CS for Roads, Transport and Public Works, that is where I am going to begin. I have two Questions that are listed for a response from the CS responsible for roads. He knows very well wherever he is that the matters that I am raising in those Questions are matters that he addressed himself to when he was a Senator in this House representing Elgeyo Marakwet County. Now he is a CS and he can make a decision on the compensation of the persons affected by a road project from Kibwezi all the way to Mwingi yet he just decides to stay away. I take great exception to that decision. Lastly, is on the matter of CS for Public Service, Gender and Affirmative Action, Hon. Aisha Jumwa. I was excited about today’s sitting because there is a matter that we would have put to rest today. There have been accusations and counter accusations from our hon. lady Senators and from the women of this country about the place of the two- thirds gender rule in the National Dialogue Committee (NADCO) report. I wanted to have a face-to-face conversation with the CS responsible for that matter on the Floor of this House, so that she could tell us what role she played. We would have put this matter to rest today. This is because she approached the NADCO and requested the matter to be removed from the discussion because there was something that she was doing and she was sure that she would succeed. We would have held a conversation around it today and settled that matter. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am still pursuing the line that you have been given the power by the supreme law of the land, to demand that in the next 30 minutes, Cabinet Secretary, Hon. Aisha Jumwa, makes an appearance on the Floor of the Senate so that we transact that business and get done with it. I submit."
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