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    "id": 942164,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/942164/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Yatta, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Charles Kilonzo",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 46,
        "legal_name": "Charles Mutavi Kilonzo",
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    "content": "My experience tells me that if cabinet secretaries become rogue, this House has the responsibility of bringing Motions of censure against them. I see two coming, namely, for the Minister for Interior and Coordination of National Government because he has no respect for Committees of this House, and the other censure Motion will automatically be on the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury. Unless we do what the 10th Parliament did, these cabinet secretaries will never have regard for this House. For a cabinet secretary to decline to appear before a committee and to require the Speaker to rule that the cabinet secretary has to appear is not only disregard to the House, but also disrespect to the Speaker of the National Assembly. If I remember very well, we talked about the Head of State as number one, the Deputy as number two and the Speaker of this House as number three. So, any cabinet secretary who does not respect this House, who declines to appear before this House and purports to legislate outside this House, must be dealt with through a Motion of Censure. That way, cabinet secretaries are going to have respect for this House. Short of that, this will remain a toothless Parliament. Thank you."
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