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    "id": 622840,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ogolla",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Ochanda Ogolla",
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    "content": "We have some strengths of this Bill that are really worth supporting. There are a few areas that we would want to look at when we get to the Committee stage to strengthen the Bill. One, the Bill gives that office a lot of work. This is much work that might not have been anticipated. Parliament must be ready to think properly about the Budget that goes to that office if they are to do this amount of work. Then there is the whole issue of the capacity of that office. The Office of the Controller of Budget cannot work on secondment alone. There must be a very serious process of engaging very competent staff beyond what we have in Clause 8, which talks about delegation of powers. Like Hon. Ochieng has said, you only delegate to a competent officer, but not to any officer. Clause 11 talks about the seal being with any other person. That is a challenge that needs to be corrected. This office will now require serious and competent people to work and not people who are on secondment like we have experienced before. That will go with the whole issue of proper budgeting for the Office of the Controller of Budget."
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