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    "id": 492888,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Orders as mandated, especially if you look at Standing Order No.170C, (1) and (2). It provides that:- “Pursuant to the provisions of Article 153(3) of the Constitution, a Cabinet Secretary shall attend before the Committee on General Oversight to answer any question concerning a matter for which the Cabinet Secretary is responsible”. That is the way it is couched just to paraphrase Article 153(3). Then 170C (2)is crucial. It provides that:- “Paragraph (1) does not preclude any other Committee of the House from requiring the attendance of a Cabinet Secretary before it, but not for the purposes of answering questions as provide for under this Part”. So, that is not to say that Cabinet Secretaries will not appear, because Committees obviously have to deal with several other issues of policy that are mandated under our own Standing Orders. So, they will continue to appear but not to answer questions in the other Committees. It is important to make that clarification, but also to say that it is the business of the Executive to know how to deal with the issue raised by Kangongo about Committee of this House and Committees of the other House. That, I do not want to make a ruling on."
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