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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Cecily Mbarire",
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        "legal_name": "Cecily Mutitu Mbarire",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this chance to add my voice to the Motion that is before us on the Parliamentary Service Bill, 2018. I begin by first thanking Hon. Cheptumo and his Committee for the work they have done in terms of this particular Bill. May I say that this is a long journey that started way back in 1970 when one Hon. Jean Marie Seroney brought a Motion on 20th March 1970 that aimed at making Parliament an independent organ of government from the Executive. Although he did not succeed in achieving what he wanted, we saw those efforts taken up again in 1998 by Hon. Oloo Aringo and we had the establishment of the Parliamentary Service Commission. At the time, we are all aware that welfare was not taken care of very well. The Executive wanted to control what Parliament did. One way they felt they could control how parliamentarians behaved and run government business was to make sure that they were not properly empowered, whether in terms of their salaries, staff and in terms of having the capacity to bring the necessary legislation as Private Members. The result was that the performance was not very good. However, we have seen that, that independence has now grown over the years and we really must continue to support any effort to make Parliament truly independent to make sure that Parliament has the necessary support to do its legislative and oversight role as enshrined in the Constitution. In this Bill, I am extremely happy that we have gone into what the values of the Parliamentary Service Commission shall be and also the values of the staff and employees of 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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