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    "id": 429527,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kabando wa Kabando",
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        "legal_name": "Kabando wa Kabando",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you for the permission to contribute. In essence, listening to the Speech, it was a basis for us, as Parliamentarians, to interrogate issues of national policy and engage the Government positively, whether we are in the Opposition or on the Government’s side in order to improve. Our constitutional mandate is, as the leadership, to take those issues that are core for the national agenda and improve. It is agreeable that there are many areas where we need to cover ground and whether you are in the Jubilee or in the CORD Coalition, we remain with a lot of space to occupy. To think that, that responsibility lies in the presidency is to deny this arm of the Government; Parliament, its constitutional mandate. We are the ones who are allocating budgets. We are the ones who are approving top executives where need be. We are the ones who are approving the regulations for the Uwezo Fund. Therefore, the question that should be captivating this country is whether the Judiciary, Parliament and the Executive are working in unity of purpose in order to scale up Kenya’s prosperity. It should concern us when a ruling is happening in the Judiciary to say that thousands of young men and women who have been trained for nearly a year are going to be told to go off with their paramilitary training, knowing how to handle guns and to do basic intelligence. It should concern us when the National Land Commission is being attacked from left, right, front and back. Whether we are in Jubilee or CORD, we should tell the Cabinet Secretary for Lands that in order to fulfill the Presidential focus on land reforms, this Commission was created to succeed. We have said it before. It should concern us when the Commission on Administrative Justice in this country appears to be toothless and does nothing. Therefore, when we are making calls for thinking to restructure the Constitution to reduce the number of commissioners and also to streamline commissions, redress issues of elective positions including in the county assemblies and the National Assembly, it is not idle talk. 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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