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    "id": 1087127,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1087127/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Seneta",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mary Yiane Senata",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for also giving me a chance to add my voice on this important Bill. From the onset, I congratulate Sen. (Dr.) Zani for this timely Bill. Parliament through Committees do quite a lot of work. Parliament investigates and gets good reports. They also write very nice resolutions, which at the end of the day, are not implemented. This Bill if it goes through will force independent institutions, parastatals and commissions to write reports and report back the implementation of resolutions done through parliamentary committees. Quite a lot of reports and Petitions are concluded in the House, but a number of them are not implemented. I remember one time when I was serving in the Committee on Energy, we had a report and some resolutions that we wrote about oil spillage in Kiboko, Makueni County. We did very nice resolutions. Up to today, quite a number of those resolutions have not been implemented. Madam Deputy Speaker, therefore, this amendment Bill will help Parliament to oversight the work that they have done. They will follow up what has been done to the community, different persons and organizations that bring their petitions here. It will also save taxpayers’ money that we use in Parliament make resolutions which are not implemented. If this Bill sails through, it will provide a good measure to help Parliament in terms of the implementation. This Bill also seeks to impose penalty for failure to report to Parliament on the resolutions of different reports. This will help us call to accountability different Government institutions and commissions. It will also be another avenue to help us even take into account what has been done, what has not been done and what needs to be done so that we address those gaps within the implementation of parliamentary resolutions. Madam Deputy Speaker, I support this Bill. I also want to pray that it will be passed in the National Assembly so that it can help Parliament in its oversight mandate."
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