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    "id": 231561,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/231561/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Angwenyi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 326,
        "legal_name": "Jimmy Nuru Ondieki Angwenyi",
        "slug": "jimmy-angwenyi"
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank you for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this debate. I will take off from where my colleague has left: That, this House, year in, year out, debates and adopts Reports of the Public Accounts Committee and the Public Investments Committee and exposes all those transgressions and leaves it to the Executive to follow up and take action. I feel that there is a weakness of our watchdog function. For our action, time and resources to be worthwhile, we should enact a law that will make it mandatory that whatever Reports and recommendations are made by the watchdog Committees and adopted by this House, should be implemented within a specific time-frame. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as you know, over the years, we have recommended through the Public Accounts Committee, various measures to be taken, especially, recovery of money looted from public coffers, but nothing has happened. The Attorney-General, who is supposed to follow up, never takes any steps. The Ministry of Finance, which is supposed to report to Parliament, periodically, to inform us what recommendations adopted by this House have been implemented, does not do so. So, what we are doing here is just a circus. December 5, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 4145"
}