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    "id": 420853,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Okoth",
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        "legal_name": "Kenneth Odhiambo Okoth",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, another area that we need to be serious about as Kenyans, if we really want to save the taxpayer some money--- We have entered into a Government system and structure that in some sense is very wasteful but there are things we can do. For example, in the last Parliament and prior ones, we have had Members of this august House serving as Cabinet Secretaries very successfully and competently. Any Member of this House, for example, Chairman Abongotum, if he were to be appointed the Minister for National Security instead of the current hotelier, who knows more about mattresses--- If hon. Abongotum who has shown his competence and knowledge in this area could be appointed the substantive Minister, I think he can discharge that duty as former Ministers for security have done. The cost of hon. Abongotum doing that professional job for Kenyans would be very minimal. We could add him Kshs200,000 as responsibility allowance and he is here. Instead, what we currently have is somebody somewhere who is sitting outside this House, who does not directly and constantly respond to Members of this House who are the voice of the sovereign people of Kenya. Somebody who does not answer to us is being maintained at a salary probably twice the one that hon. Abongotum is currently earning as a Member of this House and the Chairman in this House. I think that is wastage and we should deal with it."
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