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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kihagi",
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        "legal_name": "John Karanja Kihagi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also rise to support this Report as a member of this Committee. As has been said, the Committee on Implementation is tasked to ensure that this House does not legislate or debate in vain and, for that reason, ensure that the Executive honours its pledges and implements all the resolutions that are made, including all the enactments that are made on the Floor of this House. I used to hear people say that Kenya should become taifa tekelezi - a country that implements. We should not just come up with very nice papers and objectives which are never met. As the Hon. Member has just said, if we do not implement, then there is no need to legislate. We will just become a talk shop that would be ignored especially by the Executive. For that reason, the Committee spent a substantial amount of its time in the initial formation months trying to come up with a tracking tool of how we were going to ensure that whatever Motion, resolution or an undertaking that a Cabinet Secretary gives in this House is never lost. We spent many hours, went on many retreats and even got a sponsor in the name of State University of New York (SUNY). More than two years down the line, we are disappointed because we do not still have that tool to help us in ensuring that no resolution of this House is lost on the way. We are also appealing to the House leadership that we get that tool to enable the Committee perform even better as we move on. We have also noted another problem. Ministries are interpreting our resolutions in the way that they want. The 20 kilometre tarmacked road per constituency Resolution was very particular. The Mover of the Motion was very particular in that she meant per constituency. How that was turned into an annuity which has not been expounded to Members to show the benefit per constituency and equity at the end of the day remains a mystery. We found out that some Cabinet Secretaries are circuiting around issues and the essence of the Motion as passed by this House is lost in that interpretation. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we still believe that the benefit of the annuity should be broken down per constituency so that, even if we are talking of a budgetary constraint, at the end of the day, there is equity in the way funds meant for roads are distributed in this country. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the communication structures in the Ministry are poor, as it has been said. Last week, we were in Turkana County, and a very senior police officer – the 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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