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    "id": 1562598,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13599,
        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have said on this Floor that as a Senate and as a Parliament, it is the responsibility of all of us, irrespective of our political parties, to oversight the national and county governments. If there is a problem with a Cabinet Secretary, that Cabinet Secretary must account to Parliament as an institution, not even to their political parties or this monster they are calling Broad-Based Government, which does not exist, in my view. Yesterday at night, just before the game between Inter Milan and Barcelona began, I saw the Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury and Economic Planning on Citizen TV. He has time to appear before Citizen TV, but no time to appear before this House. I refused to watch that interview and switched to the football match because I was expecting him here. The conversations that are important to me from that Cabinet Secretary are the ones that happen here. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when I used to be in the Senate Business Committee (SBC), we said that a Cabinet Secretary must write in good time to tell the House that they will not be showing up. It is absolute contempt for a Cabinet Secretary to write a day before. They must be called out. Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, trust me, as long as I remain the Senator for Nairobi City County, and I am in this House with the oath that I took here the first day that I came to this House, we will not protect, babysit or cover up any Cabinet Secretary. It does not matter whether they come from the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) or wherever. They are there to serve the public and we will call them out as we have always done."
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