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    "id": 1426752,
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    "type": "speech",
    "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": "I expect better from the Prime Cabinet Secretary, who is the coordinator of Government business, other than to write to Parliament two days before appearance. He needs to be better organized. I expect better from hon. Soipan and the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and National Treasury. If he is managing our finances the way he is managing our letters, then we are in a difficult situation as a country. You cannot write 24 hours before appearance to a House, especially the two Cabinet Secretaries who have previously served in Parliament. Hon. Soipan has been in Parliament for over ten years, while the Prime Cabinet Secretary was in Parliament before I was born. So, it is not fair for them to treat Parliament casually. I wish that as you respond to these three letters, let it be known that there is no problem in not appearing, but give sufficient notice. We expect the Prime Cabinet Secretary to show good leadership and guide the other Cabinet Secretaries in coordinating the operations of the Cabinet by responding in the time that was stipulated. The same way Parliament takes trouble to plan its Calendar and ensure that Cabinet Secretaries have seven days’ notice before appearing before us, what is so difficult for them to sit down, plan their diary and know that on such and such a day, they are expected in Parliament and at KICC at the same time? If that KICC meeting must proceed, they should write to us so that when we meet to schedule Questions, we do not find ourselves here. As you write to them, please, make it clear that it is gross misconduct and unbecoming in their person and office to write to Parliament in two days. This is greatly unacceptable and cannot be entertained in this House. I thank you."
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