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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this wonderful Motion on capacity building of our Ministers and Assistant Ministers. I want to thank the Mover for the wise articulation of the Motion. It is time to put this House in order. Parliament is judged by the contribution of its Members. We have always said that the House is a reflection of how our Committees perform and also how the Cabinet performs. Our Cabinet is not just limited to the Ministries that they are given. Currently, the performance of Ministers is worrying. We have seen Ministers who come here and mumble as they answer Questions directed at their Ministries. Even after surviving reading the written answer which we know is normally prepared by their technical staff, they cannot tackle a supplementary question. That is because the appointment of Ministers is done without any consideration of qualifications. There are times when Ministers have been moved from one Ministry to the other. You find that a social scientist is moved from a Ministry that is purely scientific to one for engineering. That does not auger well for the performance in the Ministries. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the performance of a Minister is not tied to the House but also in the Ministry. Sometimes, we hear of difficulties in the Ministries and we do not realize that Ministers were not prepared. All of us come here for a period of five years and we only take up positions that are given to us. It is important that these Ministers be given clear guidelines in handing over while shifting from one Ministry to the other."
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