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    "content": "You obviously know that you have my sympathies in that regard. As it is, we have heard what you call the roundabout way of going about it until such time that the rules are changed to give effect to what you have really said is a little more desirable than the current situation. I want to encourage the House to continue thinking about this. We can have strangers called “Cabinet Secretaries”. We just allocate them some time, they come here, respond and it becomes easier for everybody. I agree with you, hon. Onyancha. I think it is high time we thought proactively about that because it is giving Members unnecessary strain. This is because hon. Stephen Manoti who may not convene his Committee’s meeting is giving hon. Emanikor a timeline of three weeks. The Chair may come and say that they are not even scheduled to do anything like that. So, we end up with Members complaining that they sought Statements and they have not been responded to. If we had a way of getting those Cabinet Secretaries here, under the direction and leadership of the Leader of Majority Party, we would be happy. He would just lead some strangers there, bring them in one after the other; they would liaise with the Leader of Majority Party, who would come up with how many Statements they would respond to. We must have a way that gives the Members the feel that they are doing justice to issues of concern to the people whom they represent."
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