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    "id": 558539,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kobado",
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        "legal_name": "John Owuor Onyango Kobado",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to add my voice to this Report. First, I would like to congratulate the Committee for a job well done. Indeed, being a new Committee, it has done very well. However, there is room for improvement. The Committee can still make the Report a little bit better. This Committee can, more or less, engage in the work of monitoring, control and evaluation of the resolutions that we make and ensure that they are properly implemented. What you could have done, perhaps, is to take advantage of Standing Order No. 209, particularly paragraphs (a) and (b), which give you express powers to critically evaluate the implementation process and, to a great extent, look at the status of implementation so that when you prepare a report for the House, we get a clear picture of what the specific Committees would look at and directly implement. You should provide a report with an action-plan because implementation is critical. The success of any intervention or initiative that we would want to make as a House would be judged by the extent to which it is implemented. So, it is important that the next time you do a report, let us have an action-plan rather than just talking about the way forward. The action-plan would clearly specify the objectives that should be met to see to it that those specific resolutions are implemented. We should have an implementation plan with a time-frame so that we know what should be done within what period. But the work you have done is very good. One, it has also brought out very clearly what happens in the various departments of the Government which are the implementation agencies. From this summary Report, we can clearly see some of the rogue Ministries and what happens in those Ministries. You can see the Government departments where corruption resides. You can see them very clearly because when it comes to aspects of corruption, they do not want to come out. If there is any legislation that is going to address issues of corruption, they are trying to be evasive. So, the work you have done is, indeed, quite commendable. Hopefully, if you are supported, then we will be able to ensure that what we pass in this House is implemented. We realise that these things would constitute social projects. They are not things that you can physically see, but they are projects. So, we have to look at the challenges that the various departments also face. The challenges could be budgetary or time limits. The effectiveness and efficiency of a leadership is judged by how well and quickly you can implement a given resolution. So, timeline is a tool for judging the performance of a department or of a leadership. With those few remarks, I support. I congratulate the Committee for a job well done. We will support you as other specific Committees to ensure that your work succeeds. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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