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    "id": 732629,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Baiya",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Peter Njoroge Baiya",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to agree substantially with what the Leader of the Majority Party is saying in so far as changing the title of CIOC into any other. It is quite clear that the CIOC was created by the Constitution and it is not within the Committee’s mandate to make that kind of recommendation. However, the main decision we are seeking is to have Parliament set up a stand-alone committee to oversee implementation of devolution. I want to admit that the reference to changing the CIOC to any other is a problem and I will ask that we be allowed an opportunity to make an amendment to remove that. It is not the main substance of our prayer. Our request is for a committee to oversee devolution. This came up not just within ourselves, but it is after consulting with the clearly established bodies involved in the implementation of the Constitution. It is felt that if we do not do this, there is a gap in terms of oversight of the implementation of devolution because this responsibility is vested in the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade whose focus is on finance and economic management matters that has not, in the last four years, addressed itself to matters of devolution. Essentially, they are not in their domain. So, I agree that we “pend” this matter to give the Committee an opportunity to amend that Report in terms of the objection being raised by the Leader of the Majority Party."
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