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    "id": 1002296,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, the petitioner in this case is not an idler, but the Chief Executive Officer KEPSA that is Madam Karuga. I have interacted with her a lot. Annually you organise the Speaker’s Roundtable with the private sector. By the time the private sector decides to bring a Petition to this House, this affirms the confidence they have in this House. I do hope in our conduct of business today and into the future we shall conduct ourselves in a manner that lends credence to that perception out there. The gist of this Petition is that we are implementing a lands information management system whose guiding regulations were annulled by the National Assembly. It is an illegality. That is impunity of the highest order if Government officials implement a project that is dependent on regulations which were annulled by a House of Parliament. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have automated everything in this country; births, deaths, money and vehicles. Why is it so difficult to automate land registries in a manner that is consistent with the law? Therefore, I wish to request and, perhaps you need to give us guidance going forward. Where you have regulations or statutory instruments that touch on specific areas of expertise, specific domains; for example, in the Order Paper there are the Crops regulations relating to tea and sugar. Is it enough for the Committee on delegated legislation to sit and scrutinise those regulations or would you direct in future that where the regulations are specialised they do some joint sittings? It would be very important for the delegated legislation Committee of the senate to look at these regulations if they were to be committed back to the Senate, that they sit with the Lands, Environment and Natural Resources. If you are looking at crops’ regulations, then the Committee on Delegated Legislation would find a way of sitting with the Committee on Agriculture so that the subject matter experts and specialist can also inject some thinking. However, there is no other definition of impunity rather than a Government implementing a lands information system and yet Parliament has annulled the regulations."
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