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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Deputy Speaker",
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    "content": "Clearly, the Minister for Information and Communications is not here! The Chair sometimes gets the feeling that Ministers would be very happy to have sanctions from the Chair not to transact any business because they are running away from transacting business. It is like a direction is given or a sanction or a punishment, but that is the punishment they are pretty much looking for because they do not want to be accountable to Kenyans on the Floor of the House and also to the Backbenchers. So, I will not give them that directive now. The Minister for Information and Communications will have to be here to answer this Question tomorrow and with very stern warning from the Chair that, indeed, if he is not here tomorrow, the Chair will look at the other options other than what has been generally the state of affairs in sanctions here as per the Standing Orders. Hon. Members, the Backbenchers need to take this even more seriously and in line with the provisions in the Standing Orders, bring in Motions that will essentially make every Minister here take his business and job on the Floor of the House very seriously. Ministers have the dual role of both being legislators as well as being in the Executive. It is the role of the Legislature and not precisely the Back Bench in here, to make sure that Ministers do their job right. If they do not do their job right, then you know what to do. You have a lot of tools and instruments in the Standing Orders to compel them. Otherwise, they will lose their jobs. If you know what to do, you will take them to task and do it adequately. It is a very sorry state of affairs to have a situation like this."
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