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    "speaker_name": "The Deputy Speaker",
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    "content": "whole House on it. There are very many reasons the House works through committees, which include; efficiency, expertise et cetera . We should, therefore, desist from transferring our responsibilities as committees to the whole House because it will defeat the purpose why we have committees. I do acknowledge, especially on the issue of Isiolo, among others, that while there is hue and cry; where a Senator with a Statement or a Petition is always seeking either the enjoining of many committees or the whole House; I am afraid to say that in certain committees, there seems to be some--- Let me put it this way; there is need to improve our efficiency in committees. Therefore, the Senator for Mandera and the Chairman of the Standing Committee on Finance and Budget; this House will support you if you come with a good report. However, we will not support your Committee to do its work. I, therefore, urge you, very respectively, to let committees to do their work. As I said yesterday, I am actually happy with the way we are doing our things here of late; except that we can do better. Before a matter is even brought here, the relevant committee should be seized of that matter. A good example is the issue of this Petition; everywhere in this country from Vanga to Lokitaung; from Migori to Mandera, the hue and cry of small people who are doing business with counties is devastating. I, therefore, ask myself sometimes; do we not have a committee responsible for this? Must you wait for people to commit suicide and for petitions to come here? In my understanding, the oversight we do is both pre-mortem and post-mortem oversight; that is preventive and curative oversight. Meaning that you do not wait until things have happened and you are busy saying; “jail this one” or “fine this one.” People have committed suicide; others have been wound up! We can actually prevent that. Even on the issue of the looting that is happening in counties, we can act in advance, because it is oversight. You do not have to wait to come here to discuss the reports of the Auditor- General dated six years ago, and you pretend that you are doing oversight. We must up our game. I am actually very happy so far. If we do our work in committees, our debates will be more lively, punchy and more qualitative; instead of coming here and we spent three hours discussing small things, which would have been handled by the committees. We are supposed to leave the plenary with the big things that captivate the imagination of the nation. This is a serious House that anything we spent 10 or 15 minutes on in the plenary should be so massive that it must capture the imagination of the nation. I needed to make that clarification about committees; that I respect the input you are putting there; but we can do better. On this Petition, when we heard Sen. Wambua and the other Senators who spoke as if they wanted to say; “Now, form another joint committee on this one; or that one.” No, no; we will be inefficient if we proceed that way. I hope you will agree with me."
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