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    "id": 947984,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/947984/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, the issue that Hon. Didmus Barasa is raising is very fundamental. The truth is that we have complained about this issue of CASs a number of times, but how I wish that Hon. Didmus Barasa started seeing the light those days when we were complaining about the creation of positions in the Government that did not exist. When we passed the 2010 Constitution, we were very clear. We wanted a lean Government of a maximum of 22 CSs and no one envisaged a situation where we would have assistant ministers or individuals exercising powers close to what the assistant ministers used to exercise. However, those days, the assistant ministers like Hon. Duale and I were actually just getting some little allowance from the Executive. There was also Hon. Cheptumo before he was fired. I was never fired. We were actually earning some little allowance and it was not such an extra burden to the economy. However, now we have officers who are in office earning huge salaries with vehicles and all the trappings of power. I am told their combined emoluments could even be in excess of what Members of Parliament are earning. Sometimes you ask: Why do we struggle so hard to really win our seats if those who lost to us are actually occupying prime offices? This matter would have been resolved at the point of appointing those individuals. Now that they have been in office for years is when Hon. Didmus Barasa is waking up. Those days when we used to complain, he was very busy defending the same sin that he now sees. That is why I am reluctant. Although we have kind of exchanged roles, I am reluctant to support this because I am not sure when it will come to haunt me again."
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