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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ethuro",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ekwee David Ethuro",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are very young Members who have just been reduced to mere Assistant Ministers. These are people who would have done a better job. Kenyans have already given them to this House! We are not going to shop for them at the market place. They are 1004 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES May 14, 2008 already in this House. The President is required by Section 16(2) of the Constitution to appoint Ministers from Parliament. They are here! Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when we talk of a clean Cabinet we are talking about--- I was extremely happy when the Prime Minister took our new Cabinet to class. He made it absolutely clear to the President that if a Minister is mentioned in a corruption case, he or she should step aside. We are hoping that when this Bill comes to the House, we will make provision that if a Minister has an allegation of corruption made against them, they should step aside. We want the culture of impunity where a former Minister would go to court driving a GK vehicle with a flag, yet he has been accused of abuse of office--- It happened not very long ago. It was just in the last Parliament. You should be ashamed. As somebody given trust, when you are mentioned in an adverse manner, you should give an opportunity for investigations to be carried out. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you will recall that in some of the great democracies, when there is an accident involving a train, the Minister for Transport resigns. Many times I wonder, on what basis that happens? He is not the train driver; he does not have the schedules and train operations are privatised. However, the responsibility he or she has accepted to execute on behalf of their country makes him or her resign in order to demonstrate that he or she has a job to do and it must be done properly. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the Kenyan context, when a ferry sinks and kills people we say it is an act of God."
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