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"content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to thank you for giving me this opportunity to also make my contribution this morning. The Speech by His Excellency the President, in my very humble opinion, failed short of the expectations that Kenyans had when he took over the Seat of State to address the matters that this Parliament must deal with. Ordinarily, it is a sacred moment when the Head of State is supposed to put clear the agenda that this Parliament is supposed to put before Kenyans and to tackle in this House. My first disappointment was that the President kept on talking about presenting this and that policy. This august House makes laws for this country. We anticipated that there would be a clear programme spelling out the policies the Government intends to introduce in the House. This is what we need to debate. Policy debates do not really amount to much. We have amended the Standing Orders in this House, specifically to save time. We used to bring a Motions here, first of all, as Private Membersâ Motions, to seek leave to bring legislation. We debated Motions and after leave was granted, then we brought the real legislation. The process through which Cabinet brings policy documents here for debate is a waste of time. We need a clear programme like the way Parliament has done. You come directly with a Bill and let us debate the laws of this country, as we should. The Cabinet needs to bring proposals of law for us to change the status of this country and not to bring us policy documents for debate. For Christâs sake, we are paying them enough money and allowances to sit in the Cabinet to debate those policies so that we can have real law proposals from the Government to discuss in this Parliament."
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