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    "id": 440302,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/440302/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kajwang’",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2712,
        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Secondly, Article 153(3) requires Cabinet Secretaries to come to the Floor of the Assembly or to make full and regular reports to the National Assembly. We have not been able to provide a legislative framework within which we are able to implement this provision of the Constitution. “The Cabinet Secretary shall attend before a committee of the National Assembly, or the Senate, when required by the committee, and answer any question concerning a matter for which the Cabinet Secretary is responsible.” This is the constitutional genesis of the statements that hon. Members always ask the Cabinet Secretaries but they do not get the response they need. I was going to subsection 4(b) in which Cabinet Secretaries should provide Parliament with full and regular reports concerning matters under their control. There are two issues here. The Constitution, therefore, envisages a situation where the Cabinet Secretaries will, on their own volition; on their own initiative, provide full and regular reports to the Assembly. Given that most of these questions asked are sometimes on security, devolution and so forth, even a sports Minister should, once in a year, be able to provide full and regular reports to the National Assembly. The President always comes to the National Assembly every once a year to provide reports. The Cabinet Secretaries must also be able to do this."
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