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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in fact, that practice is something that you must not allow. There is no way a Cabinet Secretary can send a letter to you seated in the Chair this morning. I am very shocked. We woke up very early in the morning to come and attend this session. The Question that I was supposed to put to hon. CPA John Mbadi, is a Question that is over a year old. It has taken him less than two weeks to become a proper Kenya Kwanza Cabinet Secretary who has no respect for this House. We cannot allow this. We want to engage with these Cabinet Secretaries. He cannot tell us--- I have heard in this House before people saying that when the late H.E Mwai Kibaki was President, if there was a matter before Parliament and another one before State House, the precedent was that you come and attend to the matters in the House first. I tell hon. CPA. John Mbadi that this is totally unacceptable. He has to show respect for this House. In fact, it is worse that he was a Member of Parliament (MP). If he had just been plucked from the wilderness like some of the other people I see, maybe we would excuse him. However, he is an MP. Has he even finished two weeks? This is unacceptable. There should be respect for this House. As of yesterday, there was already communication that he had confirmed he was going to come. Do these State House meetings just spring up on people like a surprise party? This is unacceptable. At the very minimum, he should have written yesterday and said he would not make it. We also have other business to attend to. Hon. John Mbadi must be called to order. This is not the John Mbadi I knew. I do not know what they have done to him. He used to respect Parliament."
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