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    "speaker_name": "North Horr, FAP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Chachu Ganya",
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        "legal_name": "Francis Chachu Ganya",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to support this Motion of the Committee on Implementation. This is a very important Committee. This Committee is actually fairly new. It only started in the 11th Parliament and now we are in the 12th Parliament. In those years, we were able to have ministers on the Floor of the House and we got commitments from them. We had sanctions for them if they did not fulfill or go through with the commitments. However, under this presidential system of government, we do not have ministers here. We can only ensure that whatever laws and Motions we have passed in this House can be fully pursued and commitments made through such a Committee. Private Members’ Motions and Private Members’ Bills were passed here and we made resolutions as a House, but no follow-up was made. It was actually all in vain. That is when we felt that we should come up with the Committee on Implementation. Departmental committees are able to pursue their issues and resolutions with the relevant ministries that they oversee, and they are able to ensure that things are done as per the resolutions. However, for Private Members’ Bills and Motions, Members did not have a mechanism to ensure that whatever we passed on the Floor of this House was implemented. That is why this Committee came into being. I am sorry to say that even in the 11th and 12th Parliaments, I am yet to see that you have achieved the targets that we wanted to achieve through this Committee. That is because we pass resolutions here on the Floor, they are owned by the entire House, but there is no mechanism to ensure that they are followed and actually implemented. As a House, we do not make laws or pass resolutions in vain. We have mechanisms or sanctions. We can impeach ministers, deny them budgets or refuse to pass their policy and legislation on the Floor of this House. We can actually refuse as a Parliament to deal with them until the resolutions that we have passed here are honoured and fully implemented. That is exactly what this Committee is supposed to do. I have just read the Report of the Committee. The Chair is my good friend and a very brilliant Member of Parliament. I have served with him in the same Committee in the past. This House is not able to really do what we need to do to ensure that our resolutions are fully implemented by the Executive. If there is need to amend our Standing Orders or look at our legal framework here to ensure that whatever we pass on the Floor of this House is not in vain, I think we really need to look at this very critically. As Parliament, we have powers and if we really want to exercise those powers with the authority that we have, we can actually ensure that whatever we pass on the Floor of this House is actually honoured and the Executive implements it. However, that is not happening as of now. I really want to also appeal to the Leader of the Majority Party who is also a key member of the House Business Committee to actually give the Report of this Committee the necessary time for us to discuss their issues and reports on the Floor of this House. It is only through this Committee that whatever Members want to do for this country through their Motions and private initiatives whether they are Bills, Questions or Petitions can be done. As the Committee on Implementation, please also come up with sanctions. You have teeth to bite. Let us bite where necessary even if it means denying them budgets or impeaching some of them or making some serious sanctions on some ministers and State corporations that fail to honour what we do. As a House, to be effective and be taken serious by the Executive arm of Government, we really have to empower this Committee. That is critical for this House under this presidential The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}