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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
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    "content": "So the amendments that we are going to propose will create an avenue for the Cabinet Secretaries to fulfill this part of the Constitution. In itself, it will be implementing the Constitution. The other provision of the Constitution that I bring the attention of the Members to is Article 125, where the House can summon the Cabinet Secretaries. The House will, therefore, possess the powers of the High Court, either in Committees or plenary, to amplify a specific issue. This is an issue that has troubled the mind of the Committee for quite some time. We have deliberated on it and there are several minutes which are attached to the Report. Members will see it when they retire. We have also benchmarked it against some of the best world practices or jurisdictions that have similar presidential system. When we have looked at everything else, we therefore, have proposed the amendments that appear now on pages 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 of the Report, that these amendments will help us do what we require. Members we are not, so to speak, bringing Statement Hour through the back door. This is not what we are doing. We are implementing the Constitution. We have a Constitution that tells us that Cabinet Secretaries should have full and regular reports for the National Assembly. We also have a Constitution that gives us power to ask pertinent questions concerning our constituents. So, the criticism that we are bringing Statement Hour through the back door should be met against the backdrop of the new Constitution that we have and we are looking at a new dispensation. We are not looking backwards to what we used to have. Very quickly, page 26 is admittance of the Cabinet Secretaries. There will be a designated place, which the Speaker, in his own wisdom, will designate for the Cabinet Secretaries when they appear before us. They will appear, for example, for public pronouncement of the Budget Policy. If Members would pass this then they would use this Standing Order to come to the House. Remember they are strangers in the House, but with this Standing Order, they can come in a designated place and address the nation The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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