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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
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    "content": "to ensure that the people who will appear before you and the people who will help you unravel the mysteries are given proper and real protection from abusers of law. The case I was building was on the recommendations made by the Committee. I began by congratulating them for coming up with a proposed legislation on the registration of religious organization. It is a very good one. If Ad Hoc committees – and I am not blaming Sen. Mungatana and his team entirely for this – took the time they have, consumed the resources that they consumed and then all they can do is just make recommendations for further investigations, then, in my considered opinion, that should not be the direction Ad Hoc committees should take. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, my opinion is that, firstly, it must be difficult to form an Ad Hoc committee. It should not be that when people want anything, they form an Ad Hoc committee. The consideration for the formation of an Ad Hoc committee must be serious. Once they are formed, these committees should direct and not recommend. I say this because if we take recommendations from an Ad Hoc committee – and I heard contributions from Members, including the Senate Majority Leader that Ad Hoc committees should make recommendations to Standing and Select Committees and investigative agencies. What is the use of having an Ad Hoc committee? The best thing to do for Ad Hoc committees is to justify the time and resources. I do support that they should be sufficiently facilitated, including if need be, foreign travel to do comparative studies. If that is achieved - and I know it should be achieved - then Ad Hoc committees should make unequivocal directions to agencies of Government. For example, what stopped this committee from directing that the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration to appear before the Committee of the Whole of the Senate to specifically respond to questions around him stopping witnesses from appearing before the committee? A clear directive, but not a recommendation. What would have been difficult for this Committee to direct that the Head of Security in Kilifi County be sacked and prosecuted for negligence of duty, which led to the death of more than 429 people? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have been told from the opening remarks of the report that they are being transferred to other jurisdictions, perhaps to go and continue with the same work. We are beating the purpose of establishing ad hoc committees. With those few remarks, I support the Committee for a job well done. I ask them to consider maybe in the course of the debate of this Committee, if they can be allowed to make their own reports and just two or three directives. Then we give ourselves some teeth to bite as a Senate. I support."
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