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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Baiya",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Njoroge Baiya",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to support this very important Motion. I would also like to thank the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs for ably moving this Motion. This Motion seeks the adoption of Sessional Paper No. 4 of 2014, with regard to the programme that the Government will pursue on the second Governance, Justice, Law and Order Sector (GJLOS). It is the first time the country is coming up with an elaborate policy position that encompasses the national goals with regard to the Vision 2030 as well as the implementation of the Constitution, and to bring on board all the institutions that have a role to play in the entire sector. It has been the experience from the Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee (CIOC) that we have been making laws in this country when we do not have the benefit and input of a policy position done by the Government. This has always weakened the quality and effectiveness of the laws that are passed. This has also made the laws less clear to the public. A well consultative and well prepared policy document involves all the stakeholders who bring out the main challenges in the various sectors they are involved in, and they are given an opportunity to propose solutions. These solutions are reduced to a programme that is going to be implemented within a specified period of time. It informs the development of legislation that will be required to deal with problems and challenges that have been encountered. It also informs the budgeting procedures on a regular basis. It states where resources will be allocated so as to address the programme and brings out the challenges identified. Therefore, this approach to this sector means that a policy paper is the most important defining document to help the country understand where we want to go. Where this has been done, legislation is made much easier, and it becomes possible to realise whether the legislation has realised the goal that had been identified in the policy paper. It is very important that this House gives clear priority to policy documents. In the Order Paper, there are many other policy papers which have been forwarded to the House, but for some reasons they do not appear to enjoy priority. If they enjoyed priority, they would have become the basis to inform all the other players and stakeholders."
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