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    "id": 1392910,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1392910/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "wrote to the Speaker, he wanted to convene what he termed as a high-level meeting to discuss how Parliament will process Government Bills. We understood that Hon. Moses Kuria might have confused this as part of the Public Service. He, therefore, wanted to supervise how we do our work. When we checked with the Ministry what their concerns were, it is important to put it on record that, of the Bills that Hon. Moses Kuria sent to us as pending, nine had already been assented to by His Excellency the President, having been considered and passed by this House. Out of the 56 regulations that he claimed were pending in Parliament, 52 had already been adopted by the House. One of the other Bills that he claimed had not been processed as a Government Bill was one by the Leader of the Minority Party. I do not know whether the Leader of the Minority Party processes any Bills on behalf of the Government. It was a Private Member’s Bill. Therefore, we duly informed the Cabinet Secretary and apprised him of the current structure of the Government. The office that is charged with the responsibility of coordinating the work between the Executive and the Legislature is the Prime Cabinet Secretary. That matter was put to rest that way. It was good that I informed Hon. Opiyo Wandayi. We responded appropriately to the Cabinet Secretary, Hon. Moses Kuria. I agree with Hon. Opiyo Wandayi that the same way he wrote, he should have been the one writing to the House and not his Principal Secretary."
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