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    "id": 770185,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Francis Tom Joseph Kajwang’",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for Ruaraka",
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        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
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    "content": "The other issue of principle that we see here is equitable distribution amongst Members without discrimination. There is nothing called “Government” or “Opposition”. You have for five years tried to explain this. I do not know why Members do not take this home. There is nothing like that in the constitutional order we have today. What we have is the Minority Party and the Majority Party. We have a legislative assembly. At some point, we will be so jealous about the independence of the Legislature that we will all come together to guard the independence of the Legislature; whether you are in the Minority Party or in the Majority Party. We will not have this thing that somebody feels he is closer to the Government if he is in the Majority Party. Then, he can speak nicely and well to the Government. There is nothing like that. It should not be a merit that now you know a Cabinet Secretary (CS). A CS is an officer who is subordinate to you. Why should you feel you now know him and you can talk nicely with him? What we need is a Legislature which can hold the Executive as well as the Judiciary accountable. We make laws; they enforce the laws, or they interpret the laws. This is what we want so that we do not have this thing of people jostling to be chairmen of these committees because then they can talk to the CS for this departmental committee or that. I am sure I am at the tail-end of the Report which Members have anxiously studied and which is before us. We have renamed few committees. I have told you of my interest. I have to declare my personal interest in this committee which used to be called the Catering Committee. We have renamed it so that it has a better name than it used to have. You will, for example, see it is called “Members’ Services and Facilities Committee.”"
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