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    "id": 558495,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Tuya",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Roselinda Soipan Tuya",
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    "content": "Particularly, I will not shy away from mentioning the Cabinet Secretary in charge of Energy and Petroleum. We had been pushed to the verge where we were ready to invoke Standing Order No.209 (3) on sanctioning Cabinet Secretaries but luckily for them they provided the information we needed before we completed the process of doing that. I feel that we do not have to ever go there because we need to have the necessary co-operation from the Cabinet Secretaries in order for us to make sure that the resolutions of this House are taken seriously and all the issues that we raise concerning Kenyans are implemented in a timely manner. As I say this, I also wish to say that we have a number of factors which may not provide a conducive environment, for instant implementation of certain resolutions of this House. One obvious one is the budgetary implication of certain resolutions that we pass as a House. It is important for us to appreciate that any resolution which has a budgetary implication may not have instant results in terms of implementation. The other one is the fact that certain Ministries are ahead of the House in terms of implementing certain issues discussed on the Floor of this House. It is important to appreciate that we may not have the exact text of the resolution implemented, but if its spirit is implemented by a particular Ministry, it will be good and we will go with that. Again, we had discussed Standing Order No.209(3) on the question of sanctions as a Committee. There are two things we have been intending to take up in implementing our Standing Orders. One of them is that the Committee on Implementation can do regular reports to this House on the extent of implementation. We are glad to note that with your direction and support, and that of the Office of the Clerk, we have an avenue to do that despite the lacuna in our Standing Orders. This is because the Standing Orders do not provide for an avenue through which the Committee on Implementation can get feedback to the House, but this Motion does that. The other gap we have is with the Tuesday morning sittings of the Cabinet Secretaries Question Time. We need to devise a mechanism of reporting back to the House and taking into account some of the very important interactions between the Executive and the National Assembly done on Tuesday morning under the Cabinet Secretaries Question Time. The only way to actualize Article 153 of the Constitution is through the Committee on Implementation and through those Tuesday morning sessions with the Cabinet Secretaries. So, we need a reporting back procedure to make sure that we do not lose out on that. Finally, on the question of sanctioning the Cabinet Secretaries, I have just mentioned that some of the feedback we get from Ministries are way beyond the timeline prescribed by the Standing Orders. The Constitution requires periodic and full reports but what we are treated to sometimes is very scanty and casual feedback from the Cabinet Secretaries. Right now, you can only sanction a Cabinet Secretary who fails to report. What about the Cabinet Secretaries who report but report on nothing to make the Committee move forward? We also need to see how we can make the Cabinet Secretaries provide full information so that we do not have a back and forth situation. We have some Ministries in which we have had more than five back and forth interactions without any meaningful information. Sometimes, we appreciate when the Cabinet Secretaries write to us or appear before us and tell us the challenges they face with implementation. This is because we can move from that note. We need to think of ways of doing away with non-co-operation. 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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