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    "id": 881052,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/881052/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ndaragwa, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jeremiah Kioni",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 49,
        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni",
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    "content": "afternoon, we have an opportunity to allow Kenyans to have trust and faith in this institution. We have had the issue that was before us before and now another issue that is calling on us to demonstrate that we respect institutions. Each institution must respect each other. We must remain within the confines of the Constitution and various laws that continue to guide us. We should not be here to stall or stagnate the functioning of other institutions. Hon. Wamalwa read Standing Order 206 and he accused others of having read it piece meal while he went ahead to do the same. He read up to 206(7)(a) and he avoided reading (b) where PIC is clearly being required not to examine any of the following: (b) Matters of day to day administration of the Executive. What they are doing under this particular Report is trying to micromanage the Executive. When we do that, we are really not enhancing the respect of this institution. You directed us to talk a little bit on Article 229. Before we get there, the Public Audit Act of 2015 required the Auditor-General to report on issues of audit report in accordance with Article 229 of the Constitution. When you read Article 229 of the Constitution and you mentioned Article 229(6), you talked of an audit report. Clearly, what is before us is not an audit report. You may not want to call it a research report because it annoys Hon. Bunyasi or a research paper, but it falls within that neighbourhood. But it is important that you help us. What is eventually passed by this House will require the Implementation Committee to implement. I remember the Chair of the Implementation Committee saying that some of the recommendations are so difficult to implement that they are not making sense when they sit and debate those things. As I conclude, it is important that we stop reading reports in the newspapers and rushing to the Floor of the House and start working on them. I know in the same devolution conference, they were still worried about a committee. I do not know whether it is in the House or the committee, but then it is reported to have stopped construction of dams in the country. We need to be a little bit careful so that we do not take this country into a spin. Kenyans, as Hon. Bunyasi has said, are a little bit scared of what is happening. We should not be adding into the scare. We should be giving them some confidence. Though there is some stealing, we are also in control and we can bring people to book when they steal in accordance with the law. I would want to ask that we do not get into the habit of intimidating other organs of the Government because in so doing, we do not help or add any value."
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