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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "these sacks on their backs will be affected and the prices will be affected in the way that the business is carried out. So, Cabinet Secretaries and CECMs, please, make sure that you also get to know what is the impact of these regulations when you are putting them out there. When we pass the law and donate power to you, we expect that you will use those powers responsibly. You should not abuse those powers to make regulations that are ridiculous, that defeat business that make the people of Kenya suffer instead of assisting them to make these laws functional. So, these requirements that if a regulations making authority does not work or does not bring those regulations within 12 months and they are not provided for within the main Act; that anybody can now come in and bring regulations any person who is affected by those regulations, I think it is a brilliant thing. If it has been specified that as a Cabinet Secretary or a CECM, you are supposed to make these regulations within six months but you do not make them; then you are personally liable to a fine of Kshs500,000. It is going to wake up these people. Executive authority is not supposed to be utilised at the wishes or at the compromise of the holder of that office. Executive authority is merely given as donated power to make regulations. It does not replace the law-making process, the legislative process that the Constitution has created. So, in a short Statement, we have decided to take this power back so that we control it and we tell those Ministers and those regulation-making bodies to make sure that they abide by the requirements of timelines. We do not want to be making laws here that go and hang outside there and nothing happens to you, and there is no consequence. You are being paid by the people, you are given security, you are given mileage. You are not just signing things to make the system work. I think this is a brilliant amendment to the Statutory Instruments Act. I support it and I beg colleagues to support it too. I thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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