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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Shidiye",
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        "legal_name": "Mohamed Muktar Shidiye",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. We appreciate that we are under a new dispensation. You will realize that the old Parliament had a lot of flavor and there was a lot of drama but, at the end of the day, not much was happening. This is the first Parliament in the world that gave out its power. We are now the same group which is complaining. The Tenth Parliament drafted this Constitution and we are the same Parliament now – although it is different, but the Parliament remains the same – which is complaining that we have no powers. Hon. Speaker I am a Member of the Departmental Committee in charge of Administration and Security. You will realize that it is one of the most active Committees. Issues of security are very common and difficult. The Chairman of that Committee has to play the role of a Minister. It is as if he has to be working with the Minister for 24 hours. As you will remember, the late Ojode and Prof. Saitoti would have to answer to three or four questions in any Sitting of the House. I think we need to do something about it. I see the new Constitution as an “activists” Constitution. I say this because it has a lot of mistakes and these things need to be addressed. My approach is a reformative one in the sense that we manage the old and the new order. This Parliament will not be able to deliver the Kenyan mandate. There will be a lot of bureaucracy between the Chairpersons of Departmental Committees and the Executive. Members of the Executive are always coming to Parliament to consult and so they will not be doing their jobs. At the end of the day, we are kind of doing the same thing in a different way, but being bureaucratic and not able to deliver the Kenyans’ mandate. Hon. Speaker, the point is: Where does the buck stop in this game?"
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