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    "content": "Number two, on Thursday, 4th June, 2009, the Member for Gichugu hon. Martha Karua, stood to ask Question No.182 listed on the day’s Order Paper by which she sought to know inter alia, the following from the Minister of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security; (a) The qualifications of each of the members of the newly created taskforce on police reforms; (b) why the taskforce was necessary considering that the Government had committed to implement the Waki Report on Police Reforms which was adopted by the House; (c) what became of the Report of the National Taskforce on Police Reforms launched by the Ministry in 2004, the members thereof and their respective qualifications; (d) how much money was spent in the 2004 taskforce, the Waki Commission and the amount budgeted to be spent by the new taskforce. The Question was answered by the Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security, Mr. Orwa Ojode and in the ensuing debate, the hon. Karua, in a supplementary question sought to have the Assistant Minister lay on the Table of the House reports of other taskforces and commissions of enquiry formed by the Government namely; the Report of the Kiruki Commission on the Artur Brothers, Report of the Cockar Commission on the sale of the Grand Regency Hotel, the Eng. Sharawe Report and the Report of the taskforce on the Police Reforms of 2004. In response, Mr. Ojode, while declaring that the Government had nothing to hide undertook to lay on the Table of the House, if so required, any report which has been received publicly by the appointing authority but added that he could not lay a report which had not been received officially by the appointing authority. The Chair then directed the Assistant Minister to lay on the Table all the reports mentioned above. Hon. Members, on Thursday, 5th June, 2009, the issue of laying the reports on the Table was raised again when Ms. Karua stood on a point of order and drew the attention of the Chair to the fact that the reports that had been mentioned earlier had not been laid on the Table as directed by the Chair on 4th June, 2009. She accordingly sought the directions of the Chair as to when the reports would be laid on the Table before the House. The Assistant Minister, once more, gave an undertaking that he would present the reports on Wednesday of the following week. The Chair, thereupon ordered, firstly, that the reports be laid on the Table as per hon. Ojode’s undertaking and secondly, that the Assistant Minister be barred from transacting any business in the House until those reports were laid on the Table. Hon. Members, on Wednesday, 22nd July, 2009, Ms. Martha Karua drew the attention of the Chair once more to the fact that the order made by the Chair on 25th June, 2009 requiring the laying on the Table of the Reports as fore-mentioned had not been complied with. In his response, hon. Ojode, in an apparent departure from his earlier"
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