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    "id": 239375,
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    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang'-Nyong'o",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Motion. I want to add my voice to the Minister of State for Administration and National Security who has said that we need to reassess ourselves. We really need to do that. The first task of the Economic Recovery Strategy for Wealth and Employment Creation (ERSWEC) was precisely to revive stalled projects. 2608 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES August 3, 2006 It has done so, to some extent. However, it has also not done so, to another extent. The reason why it has not done so is because this Government needs to reassess itself. The amount of waste that is going on in the Government since I left it, is horrendous. The waste can be seen in terms of money consumed by commissions. I would like to appeal to the Departmental Committee on Administration of Justice and Legal Affairs to look at the law governing commissions. This House should come up with a new law that will govern commissions in this country. If we allow the President to set up commissions whenever and however, we will never lay a firm foundation for this economy. In fact, I think that the next thing that the Government may do is establish a commission to look for the cows that went to Uganda. This would be a terrible waste of funds. So, the amount of money being wasted in commissions is eroding the capacity and the ability of this country to recover economically. Mr. Speaker, Sir, secondly, you have said quite rightly so, that Committees of Parliament should rise up to the occasion and not to disappoint Kenyans. I was the Chairman of the Public Investments Committee (PIC) in the Seventh Parliament, in the middle of the 1990s. There is record in the National Assembly of the excellent work that I did in this House for three years. However, this wasteful Government would like me to sit in this Parliament and not serve in any committee because of their selfishness and their inability to reassess themselves. All these hon. Members are in the Opposition in obedience to the saying: \"For the Welfare of Society and the Just Government of Men.\" We are not here just to serve this Government. We are here to serve the people of Kenya for the just governance of human beings all over the world. I can see it in this House. With all the experience I have in this House, this Government does not recognise it and allow me to serve in the committees. They have allowed some hon. Members to serve in four or five committees inefficiently. They have never read that saying: \"For the Welfare of Society and the Just Government of Men.\" So, in the spirit of reassessing themselves, I would request the Minister of State for Administration and National Security to take that matter to the Cabinet so that they can sit down and look at themselves in the mirror and know that they are not governing this society justly. This is very important. Mr. Speaker, Sir, during the two months recess, the Minister of State for Administration and National Security should organise a seminar for hon. Members of the Cabinet and preach that grand sermon to them: \"Let us reassess ourselves so that we can have the just government of people in this country and the welfare of Kenyans looked at properly.\" Mr. Speaker, Sir, just yesterday, in one commission that is currently going on, Mr. Michuki appeared before it for exactly 10 minutes and was not asked any questions. Why do we establish commissions when their chairmen, counsels and lawyers cannot avail themselves the opportunity to question the Minister adequately?"
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