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    "id": 460524,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Okoth",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Kenneth Odhiambo Okoth",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, we are going to stand here and say that the Cabinet Secretary, according to the substance of the report, may have acted overzealously but not unconstitutionally. My second point of concern is the insistence that while Parliament has the right to provide oversight, I do not believe that in a presidential system of government, where the Cabinet Secretary is appointed by the President to be the Chief Executive Officer of a Ministry, he or she should be micro-managed by Parliament. I bring out this point because this is the substance of recommendation number one. The two officers who were transferred still hold the same levels of responsibility in the Ministry of Energy and Ministry of Mining. They did not lose their pay. The Committee’s insistence that they must be taken back to the Cabinet Secretary’s team in the Lands Department insinuates several things. First of all, the Cabinet Secretary, as the Chief Executive of the Ministry, should have the leeway to decide whom her team will consist of in order to deliver the Jubilee Manifesto. If she finds people who have been there long enough, and have not been doing the work that is needed to be done, and have been part of the problem; surely, should she not have the right of letting such people move laterally and offer their services in different stations? Why the insistence that the two officers must be taken back to the Ministry of Lands? That is the second point that we must address. What is so special about those two Kenyans? Does it mean that if they are hit by a speeding bus today, the functions that they used to perform in the Ministry cannot be done? There are so many young and qualified Kenyans who can be surveyors in this country. So, the first recommendation of this report, to the effect that the two people must be returned to the Ministry of Lands, stinks of impunity to me."
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