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    "id": 925813,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wamatangi",
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        "legal_name": "Paul Kimani Wamatangi",
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    "content": "us that work is being done. We are in receipt of a budget in which they intend to address those issues. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, during the period under review, the Committee encountered various challenges, to a large extent compromising its operational efficiency and performance. Part of those challenges are- (1) Inadequate responses from the Executive, which I have touched on, and will not repeat. (2) Non-appearance by key stakeholders, sometimes resulting in summonses, which by far and large, are not very friendly encounters at times when there has to be enforcement. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, that is the way of the law. Sometimes when Committees in Parliament have had to resort to summoning of stakeholders, sometimes they arrive with a very lopsided version of interpretation of the intent of summons to mean that they are being forced to appear. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, allow me to put this on record in the Senate. We need to ensure that this impression that has been created that Parliament functions at the behest of other arms of Government – that it is okay for other operators in Government such as Cabinet Secretaries (CSs) and Principal Secretaries (PSs) not to appear and get their business done there and Parliament is supposed to accommodate it--- Once we resort to summoning a stakeholder who has refused to show up, then it becomes a point of being begrudged. We will be seeking intervention from the Chair. Sometimes when summons have to be issued, they have to be. Please, help us enforce that people have to appear and when they do not, then they face the consequences. As I conclude, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I wish to inform the Senate that the Committee intends to carry out the following key activities during the next quarter"
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