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    "id": 914303,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Eldas, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Adan Keynan",
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        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I take this early opportunity to thank the House. Parliament as a deliberative House is a critical arm of any civilized nation. In the old Constitution, budget-making was a preserve of the Executive. But courtesy of the new Constitution, representation, oversight, legislation and budget-making are now in the purview of Parliament. I know there is no substitute for democracy and Parliament, and democracy is expensive. But what, as a country, we must be concerned with is the implementation of Vision 2030 and the Big Four Agenda. Before I delve into that, I thank the Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. The budget-making process is not a one-day event. It is a process from the mid-term review expenditure framework to the budget-making process to public participation and to the interrogation in the House by different departmental Committees. It is a process. My good friend and former Deputy, the indomitable Hon. Ichung’wah, is up to the task. I have in the past, being one of the longest serving Members of Parliament, interacted with different Chairs of Committees. He has injected professionalism and sense in the budget- making process and even in its implementation. What lacks is that the budget-making process is one component of the process, while the implementation is another thing. In our wisdom as Parliament, we introduced the Committee on Implementation. We have departmental committees, oversight committees and now a unique Committee called “Committee on Implementation”. Its work is to ensure that the Executive and different arms of Government implement the resolutions of this House. At times, I ask myself that whether representation is equated to sovereignty as captured in the opening Chapter of the Constitution. That Chapter says that representation is equated to sovereignty. Sovereignty is the making of the nationhood of the Republic of Kenya. Anybody who doubts the role of a Member of Parliament should interrogate what the framers of the Constitution had in mind when they equated representation to sovereignty. I do not see any other better role for a Kenyan than being an elected representative of the people of Kenya. To that extent, there are certain things we must reflect on. About 40 or 50 years ago, the GDP of the Republic of Kenya was at par with a number of other countries, including South Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and many other nations. What has contributed to the backward development of the Republic of Kenya when other countries have surged ahead in social, economic and political development over the years? It is because of lack of visionary policies and lack of appreciation of our uniqueness. I define Kenya 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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