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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ichung’wa",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Motion. In my support, I want to point out a few issues that have been of concern to Members of the CIOC. At the outset, let me state that these are not issues to do with devolution. These are issues which relate to the Finance, Trade and Planning Committee. We gave this Committee a very big mandate – a mandate which the Committee is probably unable to execute on its own and cover all the areas it is expected to oversee. The Committee is expected to oversee issues of fiscal management, monetary policy, trade, planning and lately devolution. Maybe, this House failed to recognise that the Committee was overloaded when our Standing Committees were being approved. It is, therefore, important that this House establishes a committee on devolution, like the one in the Senate. The committee will play a critical role in playing its oversight role over the Executive since we already have a Ministry responsible for devolution. The Intergovernmental Committee that deals with devolution matters has had challenges with certain aspects of devolution. Many people within the Executive feel that they should not be exceeding certain limits in dealing with matters that are already devolved to county governments. It is, therefore, important that we establish a committee to oversee the Intergovernmental Committee within the Ministry of Devolution and Planning to ensure that we midwife the transition process to a fully devolved system. The Transition Authority (TA), headed by Kinuthia Wamwangi, winded up its operations too soon. The TA left very many gaps which if not properly midwifed will make us not realise the true fruits of devolution as envisaged by the framers of our Constitution. I encourage Hon. Members of this House to support this proposal to establish a committee that will provide the necessary oversight over devolution, and also provide a bridge between the Executive and the CoG in dealing with issues that need to be midwifed during the transition period towards a fully devolved system. With those few remarks, I beg to support the Motion."
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