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    "content": "In Article 153(3), a Cabinet Secretary shall attend before a Committee of the National Assembly or the Senate when required by a Committee and answer any question concerning a matter for which the Cabinet Secretary is responsible. In Article 153(4) (b); the Cabinet Secretary “shall” provide Parliament with full and regular reports concerning matters under their control. The position we have taken, which Sen. Kembi-Gitura, would consider the narrow interpretation is to invoke that one of the Committee. The Committee has powers to summon Cabinet Secretaries, call for the relevant Senators who may be interested in that particular matter and sit in the normal way to interrogate the matter. That is the safest way and it is so far expressly provided for. When you go to the other issue of presidential kind of arrangement that we have in the Constitution, we have commissioned a study and once we have done a preliminary, we will subject it to our own Kamukunji instead of an open plenary like this so that we can get views from the rest of the membership. I will only confirm to you that I will be very reluctant to do things that may be considered unconstitutional by virtue that we are in the Senate. Next Order!"
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