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    "id": 539758,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/539758/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mwaura",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13129,
        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "I am encouraged by the provisions of this Act that seek to ensure that any administrative action under Clause 4 should be expeditious. It is true that most actions that are relating to both State and non-State actors are not as expeditious. The word “expeditious” is not just a question of time, but it also has a cost element. It is about how we are expending with regard to attainment of such administrative action thereof. Therefore, I would also want to say that this cost element of doing such public administrative action needs to be focused in terms of any form of judicial review. This is because we have seen a situation where this is not attended to and the results are situations whereby it is like one responds to a mosquito bite with a hammer just because one put in a lot of resources to achieve so little. One then wonders whether, indeed, there was proper use of public monies. The other issue is about efficiency. The global trend is that people are looking for a smaller State that is more effective. However, the challenge we have in this country is the tendency by public officers to empire-build. That in itself creates an urgency syndrome. People want to be pleased and to be seen to be controlling certain fiefdoms. In fact, it speaks to the big man syndrome where for people to access public offices and to be administered properly, they end up having to massage the egos of officers who are paid to do their job."
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