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    "id": 1473392,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are things you are saying that are difficult to implement. When you say people should not be emotional about this matter, it is difficult not to be emotional about what we have just witnessed. It is also difficult to deal with a fact which is on record; that a Cabinet Secretary expected to appear before a House of Parliament is writing to the Speaker while the session is on, to say that he cannot appear. The reason given is that he is in the State House. I will say two things and I will try to be not too emotional about it. The first one is on Article 132 of the Constitution on the functions of the President. The President is accountable to Parliament. Article 153 of the Constitution says that the Cabinet is accountable to Parliament. Those two Articles read together, place the Parliament of the Republic of Kenya at such a position, that when you are required to appear before either a Committee of Parliament or a Plenary Sitting of Parliament, everything else must stop. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is just plain reading of the law. When I now see my brother and my very good friend, the Senator for Kericho, who is also the Senate Majority Leader, getting emotional and saying that Sen. Sifuna should be taught a lesson, I wonder who between Sen. Sifuna and the Cabinet Secretary for Treasury needs to be taught certain lessons."
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