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    "id": 947977,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/947977/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kimilili, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Didmus Barasa",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1885,
        "legal_name": "Didmus Wekesa Barasa Mutua",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I just wanted your direction. Today morning, I appeared before the Departmental Committee on Health to get a reply to a Question I had asked. I refused the reply because it was coming from a Chief Administrative Secretary (CAS), a person who is not in the Constitution. I say so because, when we ask Questions, we do not do so for the sake of it. But we would like to get a reply from a person who has some authority to decide even as he/she goes back to his/her office to issue a policy guideline. Many a times, the deliberations and resolve of this House are taken for a ride. I went through the Standing Orders and the Constitution. This is because you had earlier on ruled that the person who can appear before this House to provide answers to the very many Questions we ask should not be a person below the rank of Principal Secretary (PS). But I do not know whether the CASs are clerks or messengers who operate between the office of the PS and the CS. So, unless, you give direction, I have made it very clear that going forward, I will never take an answer from a person who is below the rank of a PS or whose job description and title is not provided for in the Constitution or regulations of this country."
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