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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ongoro",
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        "legal_name": "Elizabeth Ongoro Masha",
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    "content": "directly. For that reason, I want to support this Motion. I appreciate the fact that we are operating under a new system of governance where we have two levels of Government; the national Government and the county government and a lot of functions have been devolved to the county government. Having said that, it is important to note that the Constitution still demands and obligates the national Government to make sure that the welfare of its citizens is enhanced and sustained and that all citizens of Kenya are well fed to ensure economic growth and so on and so forth. For that reason, it is in order in the way that this Motion has been structured, to compel the national Government to undertake to develop a policy framework to ensure that fruit production in Kenya is supported in terms of preservation, storage, marketing and all that. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, may I also remind Kenyans that we are very good at policy formulation but very poor at implementation. Even as we debate this, I am aware that even in the Tenth Parliament, we passed several pieces of legislation that are touching on this same issue, but the Government must now take the responsibility to bridge the gap between policy formulation and policy implementation. In my opinion, this is one thing that I feel is lacking. Successive governments seem not to have had an idea on how to bridge this gap. They need to come up with a strategy where all these pieces of legislation that have been passed by successive Parliaments and approved by different arms of the Government can be put together and we give enough weight to the implementation process, so that rather than continue rolling out polices every time without implementation, we can start implementing the very many policies we have The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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