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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, why do you create a Ministry and then create three departments? I have friends, but I do not have positions to employ all my friends. We urge the President to also talk to his friends and tell them the cake is too small. Not everybody will get a piece. Some will get and some will miss. They cannot put pressure on the President that they were the candidate in Muhaya and so he must appoint them either as an ambassador, cabinet secretary or principal secretary. It cannot work. If the President does not act within the next seven days, let us move a constitutional amendment and be prescriptive. We put the number and cap it at a maximum of 22. However, we can operate with 14. These are extraordinary times. The money we save can be used to employ Junior Secondary School (JSS) teachers. These are the people who are in the streets demonstrating. Let us make them also have a bite of the national cake, instead of saying that the cake will only be for principal secretaries and cabinet secretaries. It cannot be that way. This is because we almost lost this country. We do not know, but maybe we are being given a second chance. My brother, Sen. Cheruiyot, I compare you with Lyndon Johnson, the former President of the USA. He became the leader of the Senate while very youthful, but provided leadership. He was blessed by Almighty God because he ended up becoming a president of the USA. The fact that you have the majority does not mean that you exercise tyranny over Kenyans. I am telling you, my brother. You can have the numbers, but you can still give leadership and create a legacy for yourself. In 1936, when Roosevelt Franklin was the President of the United States of America, his majority in House of Representatives was 333 members. The opposition had only 89. In the Senate, he had 83. The opposition, Republicans, had only 17. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when he came up with an unpopular legislation to amend the Supreme Court Act, to increase the number of judges from 9 to 15 so that he gets himself an opportunity to pick six, his own party, Democrats, rejected that move. Those were members of his party put the interest of the country ahead of the interest of the President, they rejected that move. We also urge our colleagues---"
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