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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Anyang'-Nyong'o",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, Sen. Khaniri, the Senator for Vihiga County, is my neighbour. Kisumu and Vihiga counties are good neighbours. This issue of the boundary is extremely urgent. We must realize that it is not just Vihiga and Kisumu counties which are faced with this malady; it is all over the Republic. I would like to caution this House that ever since Independence, boundary matters have been very explosive. However, if we manage them well, as we have to, they do not have to be. I would like to plead with the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government to act on this issue expeditiously, to prevent us from plunging into a crisis that we do not need between Vihiga and Kisumu counties. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the predicament that we are in; that we do not have Cabinet Secretaries in Parliament, can be solved if we adopt something that we inherited from the colonial Government which was then called parliamentary secretaries, who were assistant ministers and attended parliamentary sittings. At this point in time, they do not have to attend parliamentary sittings, but they can be in the galleries holding brief for their various Ministries. Since we have only about 20 Ministries, this is not too much of a cost to the Government to have parliamentary secretaries come here on a daily basis and keep track of what is going on in Parliament and report to the various Cabinet Secretaries. Otherwise, what we are trying to do; expecting the Chairpersons of Committees who are not in Government to compel Cabinet Secretaries who are earning salaries, driving big cars and sit in big offices to listen to them, in my view, this is not going to work. I think that we better make a complete proposal to have parliamentary secretaries to bear the responsibility of liaising between Parliament and Government, then we shall succeed."
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