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    "id": 1020603,
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    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "It is because of this that we are seeing a deadlock at the Senate level when it comes to resources. The little cake remaining at the national level is not shared equitably. So, I would want to encourage that we must ensure that the cake is shared equitably. Perhaps, that is where we may need a legal framework that enhances parliamentary oversight. What we have right now is a Committee looking at specific dams in specific areas. I could easily decide that I have nothing to do with Itare, Chemususu, Northern Water Collector Tuner or Karimenu II dams because they are not in my constituency. So, because of this, the people who will be concerned with this are specifically those in the Committee. I will only be bothered about the dams in my constituency. This then means that our oversight role is very limited to a few Members especially because of the amount of work we have here. We should have a law that obligates the different Government ministries to give a report to Parliament not just on the work they have done, but the work they will do annually. I know we passed the budget, but what is implemented is very different from what comes out from the budget. I think there must be a way where Parliament is given every project the Government is doing in every part of the country indicating how equitable it is. Not just what the President gives us once a year which Hon. Ichung’wah was asking for the other day. The other issue, because I know I might have challenge of time, is that success normally has mothers. We may not see this because these ones have problems and this has not been highlighted. But it is good to raise concerns before we see a problem. I had said this in the earlier Motion and I want to repeat it here. When a successful project is done by the national Government, for me in the NG-CDF, I will lay claim that the NG-CDF has done that project. I will even brand it when it is not my project. This must come in law that only the institution that has done the project should lay claim on it whether orally or in writing, so that we do not have people laying claim to have done dams without money. We are politicising these projects and that is why there is a lot of wastage of public resources. I want to agree with Hon. Jeremiah Kioni that we must limit the way we over-politicise these projects because they become susceptible to abuse."
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