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    "id": 1014418,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bondo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Ochanda",
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Ochanda Ogolla",
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    "content": "In my view, these are things that need to get to the Committee on Implementation. Cabinet Secretaries and whoever else is responsible are called upon to respond to Questions before Departmental Committees. Members are notified in this House on the date and time of the appearance by, say, the Cabinet Secretary in charge of Transport. Cabinet Secretaries appear before Departmental Committees and answer Questions, and that is the end of it. So, how do we connect? Most of the Questions that Members raise are about issues of concern to the people that they represent here. They are not as general as committee reports and many motions. That is one thing we need to check as a House. Another thing we need to look at, as a House, is Motions. Motions do not go through the normal process like Bills. Bills go through a journey of scrutiny in various stages, where they are thoroughly checked. Motions do not go through that process. When legislation has monetary implication, the Budget and Appropriations Committee advises us that it will need money for purposes of its implementation. We do not do that for Motions. Therefore, Members actually bring Motions here that, in real sense, are not implementable. I can give an example. During the last Parliament, we passed a Motion here with a very serious acclamation - that each and every constituency must have, at least, 20 kilometres of tarmac road. When the Cabinet Secretary at that time appeared before the Committee to explain why this had not been done, he said: “You people passed a Motion, but you did not provide money for the construction of the 20 kilometres of tarmac road.” So, the debate went on, but at the end of the day, it emerged that it was Parliament which did not know what it was doing. We pass a Motion, but we do not allocate funds for the implementation of the resolution and yet, it is this House that does the Budget. Therefore, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, at that level, we have a gap that needs to be fixed. That whenever we are bringing in a Motion, can our Motion be tracked and go through the due process like the Bills? Let them go through all these stages and the Movers or the proposers…"
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