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    "id": 492862,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, how then has the Attorney General since realized that what we did at that time and this one, although he is not talking about the Cabinet Secretary responsible for finance coming to the House, is not constitutional? He is only talking about this particular oversight and this then baffles me. The law is clear that Cabinet Secretaries under Article 153 would be required to come to Committees of Parliament, and those Committees are not specified in the Constitution, to answer to issues that relate to their dockets. I think that is what we have done. Let me say this as I conclude; for me, this House just needs to stand its ground and say that what we have done, and that is the truth, is a Committee. Probably, hon. Speaker, you should preside over one or two and allow your other team Members to preside over others so that they can know that this is a Committee. There are people who really do not engage their mind seriously like some of us. So, if they see hon. Kajwang’ sitting there, maybe they will then take it as a Committee of the whole House. I think your presence there may be scaring some of them. They think it is a plenary."
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