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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Imanyara",
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        "legal_name": "Gitobu Imanyara",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I pointed out that this morning, during the debate on the Motion for Adjournment, an issue was brought up for the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance about a policy statement issued by the Minister for Education on the Floor of this House regarding the payment of teachers, where an undertaking was given by the Minister that at the time of the Budget this year, there would be sufficient funds to pay the teachers. What astonished me, as I said, was that the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance not only denied it, but he said that if there was such an undertaking, or a policy statement made in the House, he was not aware of it. During the same session this morning, it was pointed out that the Minister for Education again stood on the Floor of this House and indicated the Government’s policy with regard to tuition. The Deputy Leader of Government Business, who is also a Minister in this Government, contradicted that statement and went on to say how he is funding tuition in his constituency. When policy statements are given on the Floor of this House, given the doctrine of collective responsibility, what weight are we, as the House, supposed to give such policy statements that are given on the Floor of the House? Where there is contradiction between policy statements, what recourse do the Members of Parliament, and the Kenyan people in general, who take the Ministers seriously, have? What are we supposed to understand from such contradictory policy statements?"
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