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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Osotsi",
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    "content": "Secretaries who will come to Parliament, answer questions properly and then go back to the office and deliver. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, sometimes I wonder why we call Cabinet Secretaries here. They come, answer our questions and we give feedback and yet, we never see any change happening. I know we are talking about cooperatives, but the Cabinet Secretary for Labour and Social Protection was in this House. I raised an issue about a lady who had been killed in Saudi Arabia. The Cabinet Secretary promised this House that he will give an answer in one week. It is now two months. I have written a letter to the Speaker and I have not received any feedback. Meanwhile, the family of this deceased person is suffering. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we want Cabinet Secretaries who will deliver like Oparanya, Mbadi and others. That is why when we, as a Party, say we have taken experts to the Government, we see our experts working, led by Oparanya, Mbadi and others. We want to see our Cabinet Secretaries delivering in their respective dockets, so that the country can move forward in a better way. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, with those remarks, I would like to say that I have seen an amendment saying that directors of cooperatives will be allowed to vie for only two terms. I have seen contestation about that provision, where some people are saying that the provision should not be allowed because it is a democracy, let people vie as many times as they wish. It is important that we have a time limit in the cooperative movement. With that, we will not have a scenario where one person serves as a director of a cooperative for too long. There are those who have been directors since my university days. I later started working and became a member of that cooperative and the guy was still there. Later on, I went into business and became a Member of Parliament and he was still there. I am now a Senator and the guy is still there. He has served for 30 years! I will not mention names, but if you walk around here, in the cooperatives around parliamentary precincts, you will find out how long some of those directors have been there. They have been there for many years."
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