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    "id": 1443137,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ali Roba",
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    "content": "There are also issues to do with renovations, refreshments, training and development and many other issues, including foreign and domestic travel. I would like to urge the National Treasury to comb the numbers to get a rational budget that can capture the aspirations of Kenyans as well as Gen Z in terms of living within our means. Now, let me come to the realities of the Government of President William Samoei Ruto. Before the last General Elections, I was in the Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya Coalition. After elections, through an invitation, I managed to join the Kenya Kwanza Government. By joining, we happened to have the majority both in the Senate and the National Assembly. Perhaps the President was wise enough to have considered those who supported him and gave them Cabinet positions. In August, which is next month, two years would have lapsed in the first term of his Government. It is time the President considered whether or not political reward has helped him to manage the political Government into delivering results that are required. I say this because I have first-hand experience on many issues. I am a co-principal in the Kenya Kwanza Administration, but I have Cabinet Secretaries in this Government who I have tried to look for or make phone calls to, not for personal issues, but on issues affecting members of the public who elected us into office to represent them. Phone calls and messages are not responded to. When you walk to the office that is supposed to provide services, the occupants are not there. A period of six months passed. It reached a point when I decided to take my frustrations to the President of the Republic of Kenya to share with him trivial issues that could have been managed at the Cabinet Secretary's office, which is their mandate. Political leaders have a responsibility of representation, which is a critical role that they need to undertake on behalf of the people who elected them into office. It took the effort of the President to call and share the same issues I would have shared with the respective Cabinet Secretary. I was then asked to go and see the Cabinet Secretary. Six months down the line, I am unable to see that Cabinet Secretary. I ask myself questions. My issues are minor. I can overlook and forget about them, but the question is; who is managing the political Government of President William Ruto if Cabinet Secretaries do not understand their role? It is a pity that everything must be done by the President of the Republic of Kenya. Some are trivial issues that the President should not even speak to. They are issues that Cabinet Secretaries need to attend to. What we have are Cabinet Secretaries who are working---"
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