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    "id": 880923,
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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": "Finally, in any event, under the doctrine of separation of powers, the role of this House is representation, legislation, oversight and budget-making. As a House, when this merger takes place, when this House appropriates resources, it becomes the business of the committees of this House, including PIC and Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing, to see whether the money spent on the merger was for the intended purpose. The House has no role neither does it participate in the formulation and implementation of Government policy, which falls within the domain of the Executive. If this House was to be involved at this stage, this could amount to a pre-emption of the takeover and apparent interference of the House in the business of the Executive. Our function is to appropriate budget. Once we appropriate resources for a road in Garissa to Wajir, it is this House to find out whether that money has been used for the intended purpose. I want you to rule that we are being forced by the PIC… I want him to go back and continue with investigations and bring a report. We cannot ask the Government to stop the process of a policy formulation of a merger at the initial stage because the Chair and the Committee of PIC are saying they are halting it. The Auditor-General has no single role to audit the national Government policy. What is before this House is something in vain. As I finish, I have never said that we have a problem with the PIC Report. The only problem we had was on pages 7 and 130. Before we proceed to debate this, today is the day you 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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