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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Anyango",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 130,
        "legal_name": "Dalmas Anyango Otieno",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as you realise, this is a matter we have not streamlined. The Statements are being requested from the Chairpersons, and not from the Committees themselves.These statements are requested of the Chair of the Departmental Committee. The request is then sent to the Executive. The Executive writes a statement which is sent back to the Chair. At that stage, the Chair comes to the House and reads what the Executive has said. The Chair has not even interrogated the Executive over the issue. The Committee has not even seen the statement, let alone even the response from the Executive. The statements read before the House here are not reports of the committee. They are responses adequate, inadequate or useless from the Executive. Unless we change the procedure, that the Executive comes before the committee, the Cabinet Secretary is properly interrogated over the statements requested; the committee confirms and brings it to the House as a statement or report of the committee on that matter, it is difficult to own it. You realize, in a Departmental Committee like Administration and National Security, the issues are so many and they come up on a daily basis. That procedure will not be satisfactory. We had recommended that the Chair holds a weekly session with the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Government so that they have an opportunity to interrogate the Cabinet Secretary, Principal Secretary and other security agents before they can bring a satisfactory answer to the House. That has not worked. We said every Tuesday at 8.00 o’clock the Chair and our Vice Chair have been going to Harambee House, they have never held that meeting. So, we have a serious situation that now the security of the Jubilee government is failing. A system has to be put in place so that Parliament can get the right responses and adequate action taken in these issues."
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