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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "the Committee on Implementation and gets it implemented through the various departments of Government. Every Tuesday, the House Business Committee (HBC) approves Motions that say “urges”. I think we can use this time better. Members can look at existing principal Acts in law and parliamentary legislation and go and amend those Acts, for example, the Health Act, so that we discuss more of Private Members’ Bills on Wednesday morning. If we have to discuss a Motion, we do not want to turn the House into a talk shop. The time is very important. I have looked at all the Motions we did in the 11th Parliament and the Motions we have now done in the 12th Parliament. All of them end up with urging Government. We are not in the business of urging the Government. We did not come to Parliament to urge. No! We came to Parliament to represent our people, to legislate and to play oversight roles. Therefore, it is our voters who will urge the DCs and the PSs, but when you enter that door, you are not in the business of being unapologetic. I ask Members and even those who have brought such Motions like Hon. Keter… I think you need go back and redraft that Motion. I am sure the House agrees with me this morning that we should stop this business of urging because Hon. ole Kenta, the Chair of the Committee on Implementation – I can tell you with authority that he cannot implement a Motion that urges but where the Motion ends with; “this House resolves”. We have the powers under Articles 94, 95 and 96 of the Constitution. We have those powers. Let us change that system and I am sure the Chair of the Liaison Committee and the second principal to the substantive Chair, the Speaker. We need to improve the workings of Parliament every day. Therefore, I think this business of urging should end with this Wednesday."
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