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    "speaker_name": "Bondo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Ochanda",
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Ochanda Ogolla",
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    "content": "need to be sectorised. They need to be in a manner such that when we are talking about issues of agriculture, there is a good group of researchers in the sector of agriculture. In agriculture, there are those who could deal with issues of cooperatives, crops or livestock such that when we are talking about some of these things, we are properly backed up. It is not good that we are overseeing departments that have technical information and we do not have the same information yet we are the ones overseeing them. We have also reached a point where there is the issue of appraisal of outputs and outcomes. Those are things that we need to look at such that if you are placed in front of a technical group from a department, you also have some good and clear information in terms of how you engage. That is when we are able to perform our oversight role. It is not good that we oversee without data yet we are overseeing those who have data. You can be cheated. That is exactly why some of our Motions have queries. I remember in the last Parliament, Members agreed that each constituency needs a 20- kilometre tarmac road. We agreed that it was good in terms of how it was placed and the fact that we need roads. When it got to the issue of cost and technical people were called to Parliament, I was on the Committee on Implementation and they asked us to tell them exactly what that Motion meant. We looked stupid because a kilometre of a road costs Kshs50 or Kshs60 million and we wanted to construct 20 kilometres per constituency. So, this was 20 kilometres per constituency multiplied by the number of 290 constituencies. Looking for where to we could get that kind of money in the budget was difficult. We were amazed. We had passed something that could not work. That is exactly what can help this Parliament, particularly in terms of Motions. When contributing to Bills, we need to have very serious data backup so that our contributions can make sense and oversee technical departments. With those few remarks, I support the Report."
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