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    "speaker_name": "Bondo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Ochanda",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. It is important that the whole country recognises that the best way in terms of how we can monitor and see exactly what we do is through the Committee on Implementation. It is vital to us. This is the only Committee that can follow-up the very many resolutions that we make as a House. Resolutions by this House may not be restricted to Reports, Petitions and Motions. As a House, we need to go beyond what we are doing. This Committee may need to look into this. You realise that in each and every Sitting of this House, there are clear-cut agenda that are brought in the name of Orders of the day. By the end of it, apart from the oaths and the first two agenda, all the others generate resolutions, including some decisions that are made by the Speaker. We have a whole range of agenda that generate resolutions. I am convinced that some of these are still not in the hands of the Committee on Implementation; not because they are not working hard, but because of our procedures or some things that we have not set up properly. Many a times, there are responses from Ministries. We give them time. Members raise Questions and Ministry officials commit themselves to take certain action. The commitments are read out here by Chairs of the Departmental Committees, indicating clearly the action to be undertaken within specified time frames. In my view, such is a resolution of the House. So, how many of those do we have to get to the Committee on Implementation? The idea of chasing Ministries is just too much. We need to get a way of stopping the chase because it does not work. Members run on the corridors of the Ministry offices day-in, day-out. We raise Questions here which are responded to, but after the response, there is no action. So, when there is no action, we have nowhere else to go. 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."
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