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    "id": 460529,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Okoth",
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        "legal_name": "Kenneth Odhiambo Okoth",
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    "content": "process within the Government to streamline things so as to deliver on the promises of the Jubilee Government. Surely, do we not want our President and his Cabinet to succeed? Why are we in a rush to hamper and ensure that they are kicked out? Why knock them at the knees when they are just getting started on their jobs? If we think carefully on important matters in this country, barely five weeks ago, at Westgate; we witnessed serious intelligence and security failures that led to the death of more than 67 people, destruction of property, loss of jobs and tarnishing of the investment of our country. Nobody has been held accountable for those serious lapses. Nothing has been brought to this House to send Gichangi home. Nothing has been brought to this House to send ole Lenku home. Nothing has been brought to this Parliament to send Kimaiyo home. These are three gentlemen who, in my opinion, failed us because we lost lives and property and even the prestige of this nation in a very severe manner. Charity Ngilu transferred two people – she rattled a snake – who may seem untouchable and for that, you tell me that she must go. Surely, hon. Members, you have to be honest with yourselves. We cannot bully her because she is a female leader of this country. It is about time we became fair and reasonable. She has to be controlled. She has to work within the law and that is true. Any attempt to say that she has to go home quickly, my friends in Jubilee, I warn you. You are setting a precedent for the impeachment of other Cabinet Secretaries and all the way to the President, if you are not looking at this matter carefully. Watch out for what you wish for. You may get it sooner rather than later. I stand here to reject this report and say that the Cabinet Secretary knows what she did wrong and it is about time we fixed it. My interest is to make sure that she is allowed to streamline that rotten Ministry that has let down Kenyans and has been a den of corruption over ages. She needs to make sure that the poor of this country start getting their titles quickly and on time without having to pay bribes. What a man can do, a woman can do better. The place needs to be swept clean. I have full confidence in Charity Ngilu to sweep it clean. I beg my brothers and sisters on the Jubilee side to support her and give her a chance to deliver. If she does not deliver, it is the job of the President to evaluate her. Unless you have indications and directions from State House or anywhere else that she is an inconvenient occupant in that office and that she must be replaced through Parliament, then so be it. However, if that is not the case, then you are exposing the President and Jubilee Coalition. What you wish for will come back to you very quickly. We will give it to you."
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