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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Oloo-Aringo",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Oloo Aringo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the President should not make directives at public rallies. We said we were not going to make roadside policies. We are suggesting that the Minister should come to this House with a Sessional Paper so that hon. Members can debate on it and give the direction on the policy. The idea of running the Ministry of Education from press conferences and funerals--- Because they are making serious pronouncements at funerals and the House is here deliberately to manufacture policies. What are those people at the funerals supposed to do when the a Minister makes a profound policy statement at the funeral or at a Press conference? We want the Government to be more systematic. Let them come to this House with Sessional Papers. What they call in the House of Commons, \"The White Paper\". It is that deliberation on those papers that will give policy direction to the Government. That is when the Government will be operating a democratic system. We as hon. Members can then interrogate those policies. What do you do when you are at Uhuru Park? What are those hundreds or thousands of people supposed to do when the President makes that directive without testing it? What is the May 9, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1191 function of the Cabinet? Why can it not come up with Sessional Papers and let them be brought to this House, we digest them and then legislation is made out of what we have digested? That is how the country is supposed to be run and not through roadside pronouncements. The Minister for Education makes Press statements about the policy changes. We want him to come and make those policy changes here, so that hon. Members can interrogate on the behalf of the people of Kenya. This is the place. This is where we cook law and manufacture policy. This is where we want the Government to come to. It should not be afraid of this House. After all, we are here, exactly for that purpose; to be able to discuss and thrash out policy so that we can promote the development of our people. With those few remarks, I beg to move."
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