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    "content": "was made to the highest law of the land, the Constitution of Kenya, which provides that Cabinet Secretaries shall present themselves before committees of Parliament. Hon. Speaker, a resolution was passed by the Committee that they would receive the memorandum from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and any subsequent presentations would be accepted on the availability of the CS. The point in question here is whether a committee of Parliament can present a report of considered findings and recommendations based on their oversight functions and the mandate of the committee given to them by the Standing Orders and the Constitution. That is whether that Report can be submitted to the Budget and Appropriations Committee and the recommendations therein be disregarded in total without reference to the Committee, and even without consultation with the Chairman. I am surprised to learn here that the Hon. Mutava Musyimi received a telephone call during the Budget hearings from the CS for Foreign Affairs. That is not strange in itself, but the fact is that a decision was then made to reverse or disregard, the recommendations of the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations, which were heavily considered and presented in the Report and even defended by Hon. Dido Rasso, who represented me as I had a funeral to attend in my constituency. The least that I would have expected was that Hon. Mutava Musyimi would accord us the same courtesy that he accorded the CS for Foreign Affairs. He could have called me to get my concurrence or consult me on the way forward in dealing with the recommendations of our Committee and also the quandary that he was presented with by the CS. I am surprised that my Hon. brother here used the words “punitive action”. The reductions that were effected in our recommendations of the estimates of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were in line with our scrutiny and our mandate of oversight."
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