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    "id": 194037,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Nanok",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Forestry and Wildlife",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Josephat Koli Nanok",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity. I rise to support this Motion. Basically, the purpose of this House and the Government is to deliver service to the Kenyan public. There are so many problems that the Government and this House are supposed to solve ranging from poverty to marginalisation of various areas, insecurity and others. We would like, as much as possible, to see that over 60 per cent of the Government's Budget is devoted towards delivery of service and not towards hon. Members, arguing and discussing about being overlooked in the appointment of the Cabinet. The second most important thing is the clarity of responsibilities. We now have a Cabinet - and also in previous Cabinets - where we have a Minister and Assistant Minister who assist the Minister but has no substantive portfolio to a point where hon. Members are, more or less, made to act like personal assistants of Ministers. This is, indeed, not very good. If this Motion will define the portfolios of Assistant Ministers and probably make them Deputy Ministers or Ministers of State, as it happens in many other countries, this will ensure that hon. Members will not feel inferior to other hon. Members who get appointed as Ministers. I might also say that a huge Cabinet is confusing the Kenyan public. We have a lot of overlapping responsibilities. People out there, even in my own constituency, do not know which Ministry to run to over certain issues. That is the reason why I really support this Motion. The Constitution gives this House the responsibility to redefine the number and portfolio of the different Ministers of the Government of Kenya. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I beg to support."
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