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    "content": "Secondly, the President gave out his outline in the expansion of tourism activities and marketing, agriculture and food security, environment protection, maternal health care, sports, acting and lottery, the future of our State corporations and the regulation of the private security sector for the first time Hon. Speaker, Sir, we must appreciate that there are rafts of regulations that are needed and are pending. The President said, and I am sure Members of this National Assembly through the website of the National Assembly will see that there are over 24 pieces of legislation that are at Second Reading. We have about 18 pieces of legislation pending from the last Parliament and which are queuing at the Committee Stage. We have Bills at the First Reading stage. All those pieces of legislation, more than 50 of them, are waiting for this august House to make them law. There are several legislations that require further consideration and review by this House. These legislations are in different stages of the parliamentary calendar. I hope the HBC, as the President put it, will give them the priority that they deserve. For me as the Leader of the Majority Party, I will work closely with the respective Parliamentary Committees to develop a robust Committee system to facilitate the business of this House. Under the Presidential system, the nerve centre or the central focus of parliamentary business is the committees that we are going to form before next Tuesday. Committees will be very important that Members of Parliament will not have the luxury that they used to have of asking Minister’s questions. Pertinent questions will be forwarded to the Committees which will act on behalf of the Cabinet Secretaries. It is the Committees and the respective chairpersons that will grill the Cabinet Secretaries. My office will facilitate the execution of Parliament’s oversight role. In our quest to ensure accountability to our people, they must get value for leadership. The Kenyans who brought all of us here, at the end of five years, must get value for their votes. They must get value for the long queues they formed. They must get value for the many campaign rallies they attended. Hon. Speaker, Sir, recognizing the role played by citizens in governance, my office will provide an avenue for engagement with the citizens to bring the desired change. As I conclude, because I want each and every hon. Member to contribute to the Presidential Address, in the execution of our mandate as Members of Parliament, we shall constantly seek guidance and inspiration from our motto. For the new hon. Members, this is the motto: “For the welfare of society and the just government of men”. I call upon all hon. Members to play their role in achieving that welfare and the just government for our people. That is the motto that all of us must subscribe to. Hon. Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I want to urge the Leader of the Minority Party to second and give chance to all hon. Members to contribute. Hon. Speaker, Sir, there is somebody who is disorderly there. I think hon. Millie Odhiambo has not known that she is back to the august House and that she has left the campaigns."
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