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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. First of all, I want to start by saying that the performance of a Committee depends on its leadership. This is a clear testimony of that fact. That statement is true. How? This is not the first time we are having the Committee on Implementation even though it is relatively new. We had it just before the end of the last Parliament. We now have it again. I would say that, for the first time, I am getting a Report that is properly documented from this Committee on the status of implementation of various recommendations that this House has done. I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate and thank the Member for Narok, Hon. (Ms.) Tuya Soipan, for doing a good job together with her Vice-Chairman, Hon. Gikaria. That is a commendable job. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I would like to talk about two things. First, as my colleagues have said, we make recommendations in this House and over the years they have remained recommendations - especially Motions. At times we pass Bills in this House, but they are not implemented. I am grateful that the Committee is now looking at the records of Parliament to see the resolutions that we have made and follow through so that they can be implemented. I want to advise further that some of the legislations that we have passed here contain recommendations on Government spending through budgetary allocations. I have in mind the funding of political parties. The law provides that the funding of political parties should not be less than 0.3 per cent of ordinary annual revenue. However, we have seen that in every financial year, very little allocation is made to our political parties. The management of political parties requires sufficient capacity so that parties do not depend on individual donors. This is to ensure that political parties are not tied to the interests of personalities. We are asking the Committee to ask the National Treasury why that legal requirement has not been implemented. If that was done, political parties like the TNA, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), the United Republican Party (URP), FORD(K) and Wiper would be self-sustaining since we share out the resources on the bases of the pre-election agreements. We would have those parties running properly. The reason why we have political parties being run like kiosks in this country 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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