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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "The other issue I want to speak to concerns under-performing institutions. For instance, the Report talks about under-performance by the CID and the State Law Office. In Mbita, I have inherited a case of a school called Lusare Primary School. In that school, there were people who donated land, and after that, when they died, their dependants asked to be paid for the land. The community was taken to court by those owners. The matter came to court more than 30 times. Out of those 30 times, the State Counsel appeared only three times. After that, the State Counsel came in and entered consent without even knowing what the matter was. The CDF Office in Mbita has been asked to pay Kshs2 million for this land. So, is it an issue of paying debts because of a State Counsel who did not do his or her work? These are the issues on which I am asking this Committee to be brave and use their powers. In fact, I am thankful to the substantive Speaker for pointing in the right direction. These Committees have powers; a big mandate given to them under the Constitution. Use those powers effectively; if you do not use them, we will recall you back to this House and give the work to other people; they can do the work my very able Secretary-General is doing. I also want to raise the issue of unresolved accounting matters for 2008/2009 again 2009/2010. I would like to encourage this Committee that should these issues still The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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