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    "id": 916134,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "We have created a caveat that the disbursement of these resources, namely the county oversight and the national oversight programmes will be subject to the tabling of respective comprehensive regulations for approval and concurrence by the two Houses; that is the Senate and the National Assembly. I am sure many of us understand why it is important to create that proviso that we need to agree. We need to create a framework and agree on how this money will be utilised for oversight both at the national and county levels. So, it will be crucial that we formulate regulations that will be agreed upon by the two Houses. This is so that we do not end up with a situation where money is being given to us or Senators that is not clearly defined in law what it is meant for. It should be clear what the money is meant for and how it will give value to the role of oversight that has been bestowed upon Parliament. We know that one of our roles is to oversight the Executive in its implementation of the budgetary provisions every year. So, those are the only things we intend to achieve through our proposals. There were other proposals which were brought before the Committee. For instance, we had a proposal from the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, Hon. Cheptumo to create provisions for one of the constitutional commissions, that is the office of the Ombudsman but because of resource constraints, we did not find anywhere to raise the resources. So, we have deferred that hopefully to the first Supplementary Budget. 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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