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    "id": 804081,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Maore",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Richard Maore Maoka",
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    "content": "Yes, Hon. Speaker. A case in point is the recent National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB), National Youth Service (NYS) and Kenya Pipeline headlines about scandals in those departments, where there have been committees of this House falling into the trouble of inquiring what the DCI and EACC are seized of, indicating duplication of roles and probably wastage of public funds. Interestingly, the committees end up with recommendations to the effect that the DCI, or EACC or the DPP should investigate such matters, resulting into an exercise in futility noting that the DCI and EACC would already probably have been seized of the matters and investigations. So, committees are right now reacting not just to headlines but to what I would call confusion of mandate by the Senate where we have seen some of our committees jumping into the ship of the Senate in terms of investigations yet the mandate is clear and well enshrined in the Constitution. Instead of concentrating on audited reports, accounts of the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) and political parties and specialised funds and originating investigations, we are scavenging for headlines. While it is good to be seen to be working, what value would parallel investigations add? I just wanted to give examples of what the 9th and 10th Parliaments did, of which I was a Member. You find that watchdog committees went ahead and investigated agencies. When they did the investigations, there was headline or precedent-setting originating from the committees. The examples I wanted to give are about the Japanese Embassy and the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) scam in the 9th and 10th Parliaments, respectively. In conclusion, I seek your guidance that in this regard, we restore the ever-drifting shape of committees by ensuring that they stick to their mandates and where there are ongoing investigations committees should, as far as possible, allow for conclusion of investigations by the relevant State agencies, and maybe engage the State agencies in terms of requesting for The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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