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    "content": "of the citizenry, including parliamentarians, without citing roundly that this Tenth Parliament has passed the most important Bills, the highest number of Bills relevant to improve governance, create wealth and make job opportunities more available to the people of this country. In the proposed Constitution that we are debating out there in rallies, churches, mosques, in our houses and everywhere, it is expected that all the treaties that Kenya signs will be subject to Parliamentary approval. This means that there shall never be any international convention or law which will ever be entered to by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, or even an international agreement by the Minister for Finance or any memorandum of understanding by the President who is the chief executive of the country without the approval of Parliament. Today, Kenyans are witnessing the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance signing international agreements and deals which are completely oblivious to this House. Every day, people are witnessing either the Prime Minister or the Vice-President or the President pronouncing a certain agreement with a certain nation or a certain community of nations on a certain international Non- governmental or Governmental organization without necessarily the relevant Parliamentary department being aware or involved to interrogate and ventilate such treaties, agreements or pronouncements. Giving this House, therefore, the opportunity to interrogate all the commissions of inquiry reports gives the House, tomorrow and in the future, the proposed and intended Senate and other organs of governance, opportunity to enter into these things, so that accountability and transparency for good corporate governance in the Executive and in the House is realized. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I conclude by saying how excited I am to have had the opportunity on this very first day when we have reconvened to contribute to this Motion. Reading through this Motion, you can see that the contents are wholly in anticipation of the proposed law that we are going to pass. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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