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"content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, Mr. Wamalwa was concerned about corruption which I have already talked about. But he is also concerned about the bloated size of the Cabinet. I want to take the hon. Member on a journey down memory lane. How did we end up where we are? The hon. Member will understand that by the time we were forming the Grand Coalition Government, there was a Cabinet already in place. It was consisting of 17 Ministers from the Party of National Unity (PNU) side. When we came to negotiate a coalition, because the PNU side was, by its own nature, a coalition of so many political parties, they demanded that, instead of reducing to what we were demanding as ODM--- We wanted a Cabinet of 20 or a maximum of 24 members. But our partners had so many other parties, each one of which wanted a piece of the cake. That is the reason why we ended up with a bloated Cabinet the way it is. So, if the hon. Member would want us to reduce, I want to invite him to understand that we are in a coalition. He only needs to urge his own side of the coalition to downsize and we will follow suit."
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