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    "id": 1443141,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ali Roba",
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    "content": "not even been finished. In this age of information, you will find there is a project that the President goes to do ground-breaking, but nothing happens six months later. Who is responsible for that? It is Cabinet Secretaries because they look for picture smart opportunities to be seen that they are working. We have a situation where unless the President speaks, you do not see any Cabinet Secretary speaking in defence of the Government. You do not see them moving. You find them flying only for them to get opportunities that will make them feel good. The President is faced with a huge challenge when it comes to most Members of his Cabinet. A few of them are diligent and deliver. However, most Cabinet Secretaries do not deliver. The President cannot run the country and, at the same time, the political Government. It requires Cabinet Members to perform their responsibilities with minimal supervision. At some point, I shared some unfortunate advice even to our President. He does not have to go to a new church every other Sunday because he will be bombarded with requests. Therefore, he will be forced to make promises that are impossible to fulfil. It makes the President look bad. Perhaps he should do it the way the late President Moi and the late President Kibaki were doing. He can just go to churches within the Central Business District (CBD). That way, you can have a lot of time to supervise your Ministries as required. Our President does not have to fly every other day when invited to small events. When an MP tells you there is some small event, you go. You lose the time required to sit down and supervise your Ministries in State House and reflect on their performance as required. Our President should not respond to every little issue. I was pained as a leader in the Kenya Kwanza Government when media personalities who are also fighting for fame and space were invited in the middle of chaos for an interview at State House. If the media is fighting for space, why do you invite them? If you want to inform the country, do a press briefing. For some of them, it is an opportunity to make you look bad as they fight for fame. It is an unfortunate scenario that took shape. Our President does not have to speak every time to every little issue that comes up. He needs to reflect more and use his Cabinet and other structures of Government to speak on the Government position as required. I would like to end by talking about two issues. I would like to urge His Excellency the President to understand that it is very easy for Kenya to accomplish free secondary education in this country. We only need to restructure the NG-CDF, so that you do not have parents going to the doors of MPs to beg for school fees. School fees is being dished out as a favour to the parents. If you are not politically-correct, you do not get it. Why should Kenya of the 21st Century subject itself to that, yet there is a lot of money in the name of NG-CDF, where MPs are using it as a privilege to say what they can do? If you did not support them, you are told to forget about it. The Government can provide free secondary education. That is something that will be popular and will make the President look good. That is something that will identify with Gen Z. They will be able to understand that their plight has been looked into by the Government of the day. It is not impossible. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate."
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