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    "id": 967962,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Lugari, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ayub Angatia",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2153,
        "legal_name": "Ayub Savula Angatia",
        "slug": "ayub-savula-angatia"
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    "content": "The Cabinet Secretary in charge of national Treasury is a very important person. The Principal Secretary at the national Treasury is in charge of appointing accounting officers of all other ministries. Let us have a substantive Cabinet Secretary at the National Treasury; let us not have an acting Cabinet Secretary. If you have a problem, how will he sort it out? He is merely acting. He has no total responsibility. Let us have a substantive Cabinet Secretary at the National Treasury. The Cabinet Secretary also messed recently. How Parliament appropriate money to Judiciary then a Cabinet Secretary comes overnight to scale down the allocation without Parliamentary approval? That was very wrong and in bad light. We have separation of powers. In this Government, we have the Judiciary, Executive and Legislature. Each arm must control its own resources independently and operate independently, not the childish way of an acting CS waking up at night after differing with his wife to slash the budget of the Judiciary. That was very wrong. If you want this country to go to the dogs, then slash the budget of Judiciary and limit its operations. For any nation to be stable, you must have a body that looks into mechanism of resolving disputes that is stable. We must stabilise the Judiciary by allocating it money. The Cabinet Secretary must write an official apology to the National Assembly because he had no authority. It is only Parliament that has authority to slash or increase the allocation to any Government department. Where did he get the powers and he says he went to school? Are these the people who schooled in Dubai? We have to increase the level of vetting of Principal Secretaries and Cabinet Secretaries so that we know those capable of doing the job. I am happy because of the views that have been collected under Building Bridges Initiative (BBI). If we adopt the BBI Report, we will make changes that will move Kenya forward. We will have Cabinet Secretaries from here. Hon. Wandayi will be the Minister for Finance and Washiali, the Minister for Agriculture to sort out Mumias Sugar Company. He is on the ground and knows what is happening in Mumias Sugar Company. He knows the dose to give Mumias Sugar Company to resurrect it, to make sure that it does not go to the mortuary. He has the prescription because he has been a Member of Parliament of that area. He interacts with the farmers. He knows the origin of the problem of Mumias Sugar Company. Do not tell me Mwangi Kiunjuri who understands the coffee sector only, is aware of the problems bedeviling Mumias Sugar Company. We have always said here that the economy of Western region is being killed. Pan African Paper Mills Factory was sent under receivership and so is Mumias Sugar Company. The following year, you will hear Nzoia Sugar Company is under receivership based on the content of this Report. Finally, there is the issue of some individuals in this country roaming around the country and launching projects without a budget line. We need to operate like the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF). You can only launch a classroom as an MP when NG-CDF money is in that account. That is what the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act says. But you find some individuals because they want political mileage, are today in Lugari The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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