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    "id": 1035297,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "to send amendments through the Executive. That means they are subjected to the bureaucratic ratchet of the Executive and yet, they are independent institutions. Under the presidential system of government, where the three arms of government are independent of each other, we expect those institutions to prepare quarterly reports. Those institutions include the Financial Reporting Centre and the Asset Recovery Agency. In other words, they are called the multi-agency team. I think they can sit and see that there is need and a gap in terms of legislation in the war against corruption, money laundering and organized crime. Parliament, as an independent institution, needs to find a mechanism. Through your Office, I think those are part of the reforms that are attributed to you during your tenure. Maybe, you will discuss during the next leadership retreat, that those independent institutions can either use the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs as the avenue and vehicle or a Speaker or an individual Member. I will prefer that the committees that oversee those institutions carry the amendments. That is so that we do not look like we are subjecting them and denying them certain legislative proposals that they feel, if the House enacts them, will improve their day to day duties either in the war against corruption or organized crimes. That is why I feel the ten items from the Criminal Procedure Code Cap 75 up to the Bribery Act of 2016 all look like amendments from independent institutions which report to Parliament. They do quarterly reports and are oversighted by Parliament in terms of budget and administration. So, I do not want them to go back again. I have given an example of the Auditor- General. The Auditor-General cannot be going through them. It is the CS for the National Treasury. I beg to support."
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