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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kanyua",
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        "legal_name": "Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I hope that you will compensate me for the minute that he has taken away from my time. Hon. Speaker, we are on the point of the new constitutional order, and on the Legislature having power to oversee the work of the Executive. Even as I oppose this Motion, I am happy that it has come to this Floor, because Cabinet Secretaries (CSs) have to hear the messages of this Assembly. The messages we are giving CSs are that they have to respect the people’s representatives. There is no other way in this country. There can be no other way. Public office is public office. You might be an arrogant man, thank you very much, but public office is public office. You will have to respect public office. Arrogance, unfortunately, is not a ground for removal of a Cabinet Secretary (CS). We all agree that CS Kaimenyi is not a good man. I doubt that he will go to heaven. I do not think he will go to heaven given his conduct. However, this is not about heaven. The National Assembly has no power to judge good and bad men. That is not our work. Our work is to look at the law, the Constitution and check whether a CS has infringed the Constitution. Prof. Kaimenyi has not infringed the Constitution. His arrogance is neither here nor there. We want him to do the right thing. We want him to be humble in public office. Arrogance is a new law for this country. We have seen people being denied public office because they are arrogant. This National Assembly is setting a new law. If you look at the Constitution, there is no requirement around arrogance. Members of Parliament, in this country, nobody is as arrogant as we are. Nobody is as arrogant in this country as MPs are. I am surprised that people who are so arrogant are now judging other arrogant people. Arrogance is not a ground for removal. We cannot remove a CS on the mere ground that they are arrogant. If the CS was corrupt and was brought here for touching Free Primary Education (FPE) money, even we in Jubilee would have removed him today. If he was brought here for corruption, nobody would support him. We would have been the first to remove him. But the poor man was not brought here because of corruption. He was brought here because of arrogance. We cannot accept that a CS in this day and age can be removed only on the grounds of arrogance. As we go on, the National Assembly will have to set parameters on the engagement between the Executive and the Legislature. It is time all the Executive CSs set up parliamentary liaison offices. We are tired of crying. When we go to CSs, we have demands from our constituents that they have to listen to. What they need to do, because it is a new regime and constitutional order, is set up an engagement mechanism between the Legislature and the Executive. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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