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    "id": 1515291,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. First, allow me to take this opportunity to thank all Members for their contributions and support to these nominees who were vetted under your chairmanship. In replying, I have listened to the sentiments of many of the contributors. It is important to re-emphasise what many of them have said: Cabinet Secretaries come into office to serve all the people of Kenya and the Government of the day, not just the regions they come from. As has been said by many people, it is important for these nominees and those currently serving in the Cabinet to recognise that they not only have a collective responsibility in their service to the people of Kenya, but also to carry themselves with the decorum and integrity that behove their offices. If any Cabinet Secretary feels that the President has reassigned them to a Ministry that they think is of a lower rank than their previous one, they should simply resign. If you think you have been reassigned to a Ministry where you are unable to extort money from people, and you cannot say so to the public and want to pretend that you are holier than thou, we know you. If you are about to be fired, do not pretend that you are either resigning or asking to be fired. Just go. It is not only about those who are serving, rather it includes the ones we are approving today. This House will oversee all cabinet secretaries with no regard for where they come from or their political affiliation. In the spirit of the broad-based Government, we have cabinet secretaries serving this country who were not part and parcel of the Kenya Kwanza campaign trail. The country is bigger than Kenya Kwanza. The Government of the day serves all Kenyans. I must commend the President for seeing beyond his political party and the coalition that he campaigned under. I must commend the Cabinet Secretaries from the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM): Hon. John Mbadi, Hon. Opiyo Wandayi, Hon. Joho, Hon. Oparanya and Hon. Askul. These Cabinet Secretaries are serving this country with diligence, integrity, and commitment to the people of Kenya. As a Cabinet Secretary, you do not serve the President of the day. You serve the people of Kenya. It is Kenyan taxpayers who pay your salary. Serve with honour, diligence, and commitment. We will continue to oversee Cabinet Secretaries in office today, but we will not waste any more of our parliamentary time to impeach a Cabinet Secretary. Cabinet Secretaries are not people to waste our time with. The honourable thing for a Cabinet Secretary who feels they have failed or are too big for the job they are holding is to resign. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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