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"content": " Yes, Sen. (Dr.) Boni."
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"content": "Yes, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I am equally concerned. I sit in the Senate Committee on Finance and Budge. The Cabinet Secretary did the same thing to us yesterday only that he was clever by a half in the sense that his excuse was that he was attending the Cabinet. You can see that he was not in Cabinet, he was in a rally. If this Parliament is not going to rise, what is happening in the Broad-Based Government is not going to be any different with what we saw in the Grand Coalition Alliance. Once people who have been opposing each other come together in the Executive, it is Parliament that can call them to order. Colleagues, when we found ourselves where the Broad-Based Government is starting to take us, Hon. Martha Karua, Hon. Mungatana, Hon. Gitobu Imanyara and myself took it upon ourselves and created an opposition. Something must be done. This is arrogance of the highest level. My brother from Kitui County, did you hear the Cabinet Secretary say the day before that whereas the Jaramogi Oginga Teaching and Referral Hospital could only access Kshs300 million from Prof. Anyang’-Nyong’o in the last budget, they now will be given Kshs3 billion in the budget, now that he is the Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury and Economic Planning? Is that what we want to allow to be the working of the Constitution? We must say no, so that we protect smaller and unlucky communities that do not have a Cabinet Secretary. The Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury and Economic Planning is not the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "Cabinet Secretary for any community, leave alone the Luo Community. He must serve us equally."
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"content": " Sen. Sifuna, proceed."
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"content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, let me begin by saying that I do not know whether this thing called Broad-Based Government exists. I do not recognise any entity called Broad-Based Government. There is a Government of Kenya Kwanza under the leadership of President William Ruto. Every Cabinet Secretary who serves in that Government serves the Kenya Kwanza Government. I echo what Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale has said, that some of these individuals who joined Government recently think they are there to represent their ethnic communities. Every time a Cabinet Secretary stands up, he tells you of how much the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum has allocated to power projects in Nyanza. So, the rest of us who are Luhyas are sitting there wondering who is going to speak about the projects in Bungoma?"
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"content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have said on this Floor that as a Senate and as a Parliament, it is the responsibility of all of us, irrespective of our political parties, to oversight the national and county governments. If there is a problem with a Cabinet Secretary, that Cabinet Secretary must account to Parliament as an institution, not even to their political parties or this monster they are calling Broad-Based Government, which does not exist, in my view. Yesterday at night, just before the game between Inter Milan and Barcelona began, I saw the Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury and Economic Planning on Citizen TV. He has time to appear before Citizen TV, but no time to appear before this House. I refused to watch that interview and switched to the football match because I was expecting him here. The conversations that are important to me from that Cabinet Secretary are the ones that happen here. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when I used to be in the Senate Business Committee (SBC), we said that a Cabinet Secretary must write in good time to tell the House that they will not be showing up. It is absolute contempt for a Cabinet Secretary to write a day before. They must be called out. Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, trust me, as long as I remain the Senator for Nairobi City County, and I am in this House with the oath that I took here the first day that I came to this House, we will not protect, babysit or cover up any Cabinet Secretary. It does not matter whether they come from the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) or wherever. They are there to serve the public and we will call them out as we have always done."
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"content": "Hon. John Mbadi must know that we are unhappy, as a House, that he has time to attend rallies where he explains how much money Luos will get from this Government. He also has time to go to Citizen Television to tell lies about economic growth. If you The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "read today’s newspapers, data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) shows that the economy has done the worst since COVID-19. We have lost jobs and salaries and wages have shrunk because of the taxation that has been imposed by this Government. Still, you go to Citizen TV pontificating about the work that you are doing. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we will call out these Cabinet Secretaries without fear. Mimi s iogopi mtu . We will say these things publicly because that is what we swore to do. In fact, you need to confirm to this House whether he has ever appeared here since he was sworn in as Cabinet Secretary. I have never seen him here. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is an issue that we, as a leadership in the Senate, have to call out. We have to insist on doing our oversight role as Senators, regardless of whatever monster people think exists in this country called Broad-Based Government. Thank you."
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