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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Adan Ali",
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        "legal_name": "Adan Hajj Ali",
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    "content": "(Mandera South, JP) Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. The matter that has been raised by the Chair and also by Hon. Sankok is a weighty one. The House’s attention must be drawn to the elephant in the room which is the Executive Orders that are usually issued immediately after the budget-making process is completed. We have realised that the Executive is in the habit of hiving off state departments out of certain Ministries and transferring them to others immediately after the budget-making process is completed. That makes it very difficult for Committees to oversee them. If such movements are not captured in Standing Orders, like what happened to the State Department for Irrigation in the Ministry of Agriculture, then we will have confusion like what we now have in the Department of Gender, and obviously what the departmental committee is going through at the moment. We must address the issue of Executive Orders immediately after the budget process is completed by this Hon. House. That, in my view is the elephant in the room."
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