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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gikaria",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Gikaria",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity. The Chairperson has elaborated exhaustively the issues that we have, so far, faced as the Committee on Implementation. I totally agree with her. You have always been telling us the importance of this Committee and we have taken up that responsibility to pick up the issues after the mandatory 60 days. The Committee is cohesive. With the help of the State University of New York (SUNY), the Institute of Social Accountability (TISA) and the Office of the Deputy President, we had some retreats and seminars to actualize the implementation of what we resolve in Parliament. With the help of SUNY and TISA, we started a process of tracking down resolutions. Although we have had challenges, as the Chairperson has just said, we have been getting support. Part of the support has been from your Office and that of the Clerk. It would not have been easy for us to come and report on this manner. We have come to your Office several times and we thank you for giving us an opportunity to bring a special Motion so that we can report on the implementation status. Hon. Speaker, in that retreat, we agreed with our co-partners that we are going to come up with a tracking tool. We agreed that the Office of the Clerk is going to facilitate only less than Kshs400,000 to the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Department so that we can formalise and actualise the tracking matrix. So, each Member will just need a code and then click. At least, he or she will be able to follow the implementation status of the resolutions and Government commitments. However, that has not been availed. It has been a big problem for us. That is because every time we have to go back to the papers to check the implementation status. Otherwise, we would just be getting the implementation status through a click of a button of a computer. We urge the Office of the Clerk to take up this issue because the figures were given and the ICT Department gave their recommendations and amounts. It was the Office of the Clerk which was left to source for that software that would be used for tracking."
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