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    "id": 1379439,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Speaker, allow me to pick two particular agencies that are mentioned here. Let me declare from the word ‘go’ that Numbers 18 and 19 – the Estate Agents Registration Board, which is on Page 9 of the Report, and the Valuers Registration Board – are both professional bodies that register members in the learned profession. I am a senior member of a professional body and I have authority to speak about them. The structure and architecture of the boards of the two substantive Acts are an appendage of the Principal Secretary. Looking at the sources, for example, the Estate Agency Act, Section 27 reads: ‘The Minister may, with the consent of the Treasury, out of moneys provided by Parliament – (a) make to the Board such grants as may be necessary to enable it to discharge its functions under this Act; “(b) pay remunerations and travelling and other allowances to members of the Board other than the members who are public officers in receipt of a salary.” (c) make such other payments as may be necessary to give effect to the provisions of this Act. Hon. Temporary Speaker, the import of the Act is that those boards were never meant to be independent boards, but desks in the Principal Secretaries’ offices. Their job is to register the relevant professionals who pay registration fee, which is taken to be part of the Appropriations-in-Aid of the respective departments. It is important that the Committee is seized of this matter. They need to re-look at the architecture of those registration boards and see how they can be made independent and accountable. This is because they would simply say that they received grants and accounted for them to the parent ministry or the principal secretary for that particular purpose. There are some agents that are established by ambiguous executive orders. When you establish an organ by an executive order, such organ is neither permanent nor an independent body. It can be de-registered or dis-established by an executive order at any point. Naturally, I imagine that they would account for their revenue through the respective departments. I commend the Committee for bringing out very salient issues that have never been part and parcel of debate in this country. The burden moves to the Committee on Implementation. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"
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