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    "id": 441552,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Pukose",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Pukose",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute. This Report from the Procedure and House Rules Committee on review of the Standing Order 44; Statements and actualization of provisions of Article 153 of the Constitution of Kenyan is quite timely. Hon. Speaker, this is an opportunity of sorting out pertinent issues that hon. Members have been raising without getting good response. This gives us an opportunity also to interact with our Cabinet Secretaries. Many of the issues like censure motions would not have arisen if we had interactions with these people. Hon. Speaker, this is an opportunity for them to give satisfactory answers to hon. Members. These hon. Members represent their constituents and whenever we raise issues, more often some of these issues need immediate attention. Today, hon. Kajuju raised an issue that is affecting the medical fraternity in Meru Level 5 Hospital. In a span of two weeks there has been loss of two doctors and doctors are getting scared. This is creating anxiety within the institution. This is something we would have had a timely response to on the Floor by the Cabinet Secretary of Interior and Co-ordination of National Government. He would have told us how soon the issue will be sorted out Hon. Speaker, we have raised several issues on the Floor of this House. I am on record raising an issue where I presented a petition, in July last year, on Mr. Mkanda and up to now the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations has not given me a satisfactory response. Mr. Mkanda is still patiently waiting for the response. This Procedural Motion gives this House the powers to sort out many of our issues. It gives us an opportunity to interrogate and if we feel we are not satisfied with the answers, we have an opportunity of interacting with Cabinet Secretaries and executing some of these issues. I want to urge the Cabinet Secretaries not to fear. I know many of them are anxious and they would wish to perform their duties in their offices behind closed doors. We have had some not very good responses from them. More often you find that they just sign those responses. They do not go through them. Junior officers are the ones who research and write those responses. They should not be scared as to how they are going to execute their functions. As hon. Members have put it quite clearly, this is an opportunity for them to interact with hon. Members. Some of them might become MCAs, Members of Parliament or even Senators in future. Therefore, given this opportunity and platform, it is a very good opportunity for them to present their cases on a one on one interaction between hon. Members and Cabinet Secretaries."
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