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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Oburu",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Oburu Ngona Odinga",
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    "content": "I will start with the Committee on Delegated Legislation, which is very important. I was a Member of this House at a time when there was no such committee. It was a very sad situation. I recall when the loss on the Procurement Act was passed and the old Procurement Act was very loose, the officers used to like it so much. When the Act was passed and there was no Committee on Delegated Legislation, it took more than one year to enable regulations to be developed by the Executive. Whenever we asked the Minister why the procurement laws are not in place, we were told the regulations are still being worked on. They just used to prepare the delegated legislations, which is in terms of regulations, gazette them and that is all. They could take their sweet time to do it. When this Committee was formed, Parliament can follow up and make sure that these regulations are developed, are in the interest of the people and actually help in the implementation of the Act as enacted by Parliament. This is because you could not be sure whether regulations which did not come to Parliament were implementing those provisions which were in the law."
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