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    "id": 1379438,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I support the Public Investments Committee on Social Services, Administration and Agriculture on its consideration of the Report of the Auditor General on non-compliant State corporations. We are now starting to reap the benefits of splitting the Public Accounts Committee into various sub-committees. When it was one big Committee, it did not have the time or energy to dig deep into the so-called smaller matters like this one. At this rate, the country is going to be seized of the issues that are ailing some of those State corporations and Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs). Secondly, the Report brings out a very fundamental issue. We have passed several Bills and created very many small organs, councils or committees to operationalise them. Those organs are probably too many and too small, and their mandates are not very clear. The Cabinet Secretary responsible for operationalising the particular Acts of Parliament simply ignores them knowing that there are no negative or adverse consequences on the management or operationalization of the Acts. This implores us to ask ourselves how we should prepare our Bills. How do we make our laws? How do we operationalise our laws? In many instances, you find me, you and Hon. (Dr.) Nyikal in the Committee of the whole House pointing out those funny things. However, since we do not have the numbers, nobody takes note of our views and the matter comes back to embarrass everybody who is responsible for the operationalisation of those Acts."
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