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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. It seems we still need to take some Members for induction. Rather than going through the technicalities, let me start by just opposing this amendment. I know Hon. Kiarie is a good scholar. He reads. If he had read the Report, he would have seen that the same things he is proposing are already included in the Report. The first resolution of the Motion is that there will be a progress report on the implementation. Is that not what he is asking for? The Treaty Making and Ratification Act states that, for you to make any further changes, you must come to Parliament. We are basically repeating what is already provided for. This is a time-wasting exercise, perhaps, borne out of ignorance in terms of what the law says and not adding any value. When he says that a certain agency should be operationalised and given the power to oversee this, which agency oversees this except Parliament? We have already said that the Cabinet Secretary will be reporting to Parliament. Which is this other agency? If, in the reorganisation of Government, that agency is killed, who will we hold accountable? Once Parliament has said that the Cabinet Secretary in charge of industrialisation will be reporting to Parliament, it is not up to us to start micromanaging the Ministry and look to operationalise some agency where we have some interests. This is borne out of mischief. Much as I have a lot of respect for Hon. Kiarie, it is something that we should just reject in total as a House and go back to the Agreement so that we do not waste time on side shows when we have a major Agreement to consider. Our farmers and traders are waiting for us to consider, yet all we are doing is trying to create work for some agencies. I object. I oppose this amendment and ask the House to oppose it."
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