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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Baringo North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Makilap",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. The Statutory Instruments (Amendment) Bill has come at the right time in this country. Procedurally, the Constitution is given furtherance through Acts of Parliament. Acts of Parliament are given furtherance through delegated legislations. When you delegate something to somebody, it is not the end. The user must come back to the delegating authority to seek concurrence on regulations that one may have made. If you delegate to someone responsibility to make some regulations, that person must come back to you as the owner of the authority to ask whether that regulation is right or in accordance with the law or the Act of Parliament. Delegated authority for Government ministries and agencies has given rise to corruption in this country. Cabinet Secretaries and other government officials have used regulations to impoverish the citizens in the name of giving furtherance to Acts of Parliament. Now that the National Assembly has realised this problem, it is only good that if someone wants to make some regulations, one does so and brings them to the owner of the authority for verification and ascertainment that the regulations are, indeed, good for the people of Kenya. Hon. Temporary Speaker, this House is for the welfare of the people of Kenya. Who is responsible for taking care of the interest of Kenyans? Why is it that there are parliaments all over the world? Parliaments exist to check the excesses of the Executive and to protect the citizens from exploitation. It is, therefore, my duty to protect the citizens of Kenya from oppression. I support this amendment by Hon. Chepkonga. Some Government officials have abused the authority to make regulations to introduce taxes through the back door. They have used regulations to impoverish players in the sugar industry. Today, the Government of Kenya is bailing out some sugar companies to the tune of Ksh117 billion because even where courts have quashed some Acts of Parliament, the Executive continued to use the same regulations to make decisions whereas the mother law that gave them power to make the regulations has been nullified."
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