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    "id": 1474083,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugenya, MDG",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Ochieng’",
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        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I thank the Committee chaired by Hon. Wanjala, my neighbour at home, for a good Report. The National Assembly, and Parliament as a whole, operates through Bills, resolutions and petitions. To know how effective our role is and that Parliament has \"teeth\" depends almost entirely on the adherence to and implementation of the resolutions that are made by this House. It is extremely disturbing that we take so long to make a resolution and then, even when we make those resolutions, if you listen to the Report that has been presented to this House this evening, and if you check the history of the implementation of resolutions of this House, including Private Members' Bills that become law, it is like we are begging. It is like this House has no capacity to ensure that our resolutions are implemented. We have passed very many resolutions, but you can count on your fingers how many have been implemented to the end. It will be upon this House to ensure that if it passes resolutions in future, they are implemented by Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) and the Semi-Autonomous State Agencies (SAGAs). If you look at the Order Papers for this week, next week and even the previous weeks, this House works through Motions. Most of those Motions propose resolutions to ensure the country moves in the right direction. If the Assembly or the people of this country make a resolution that is not implemented, we are working in vain. We must find a way to ensure that our resolutions are implemented. Failure to implement them results in sanctions. You have heard the Hon. Chairperson present his Report, and there are myriads of things that this House resolves every day. Just this afternoon, we had a case where a gentleman, a Member of a County Assembly (MCA), has been abducted. No one knows where he is. The police do not know. The Committee of Parliament concerned does not know. We have had many cases like this, and when they are brought to the House, we make resolutions, but nothing happens. So, this House has become like a talk shop. We talk and talk and then talk some more. We then come back and raise the same issues in the next Session."
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