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    "id": 1442908,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1442908/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
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    "content": "I want to challenge the President, respectfully again. The cost of living is what it is. Too much talk is not helping anyone. We have said everything that could be said. It is now time for action. There are things that I know the President can do to bring down the temperatures in this country. One of the things he can do even today is to reduce the size of his Cabinet. Article 152 of the Constitution gives the President a minimum and maximum number of Cabinet Secretaries. He can appoint between 14 and 22 Cabinet Secretaries. As I speak, we have 21 Cabinet Secretaries. I call upon the President, as a demonstration that he has listened and understood what the people are saying, to reduce the size of his Cabinet from 21 to 14 which is the minimum. Merge Departments and reduce the number of Principal Secretaries (PSs) from 51 to around 30 or even 14, to match the number of Cabinet Secretaries that we have. There is comparable jurisdiction to this argument. When you look at the United States of America (USA), where we go to borrow money and benchmark all the time, the size of the Cabinet is 15 with a population of more than 340 million people. When you look at China with a population of more than 1.5 billion people, Members of the State Council, whose equivalent are Cabinet Secretaries, are 26. What are we doing with 21 Cabinet Secretaries with a population of less than 60 million people and an economy that cannot support that kind of expenditure? Let us reduce that number."
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