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    "id": 1014393,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo",
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        "legal_name": "Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I was getting worried because I thought my card was lost. Let me take this opportunity to join my colleagues in thanking the Committee on Implementation on their Report in respect of the various petitions, reports, legislations recommendations and action points that the 12th Parliament has passed since we started. It is unfortunate that we are mandated to legislate. We are mandated to oversee. We are mandated to prepare budgets for the purpose of running this country. It is unfortunate that we do all this but the saddest part is that many times, the Executive and other bodies routinely ignore the edicts or the resolutions of this House, thus making us look as if we are a mere talking point. I hope that, as a House, we could find mechanisms to ensure that all resolutions - unless they are set aside by another competent authority like the Judiciary - are implemented without debate, question and within a reasonable period of time. It is very discouraging that a Member of this House spends a substantial amount of time to research, prepare a Motion, bring it for debate, convince colleagues to pass it and the last thing you hear about it is that acclamation of the “Ayes” and the “Nays”, and that is the end of the story. It is discouraging. It sends a wrong picture on the effectiveness of Parliament. I join the chorus of my colleagues who say that we must find a mechanism of enforcing whatever we pass here, so that we do not legislate in vain."
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