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    "id": 968874,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Emurua Dikirr, KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kipyegon Ng’eno",
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        "legal_name": "Johana Ngeno Kipyegon",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Let me speak to this briefly because Members wish to discuss the next report. I want to say a few words, but let me start by congratulating the Members of the Committee and reiterate that it is our work as Members of Parliament to implement this Report. Our major role is oversight and legislation. So, when we budget, the Government should use the funds in a good manner. Another role is advising the Executive on the next cause of action. I wish to state that this House has the responsibility of advising the Executive on better management of funds allocated to the different departments and ministries. We have heard the President’s debate on the Big Four Agenda, the fight against corruption and better use of funds allocated to different ministries and departments in the country. It is our responsibility to advice the President where there are loopholes, so that he may not direct his energies wrongly. The legacy the President should leave for this country is not what many people have been talking about. The President should leave a legacy of sealing the loopholes of wastages in this country. We budget billions of shillings every year, but nothing happens on the ground. This question goes to the Executive because it implements. It is meant to give this nation a clean slate of expenditure. The President should ensure that all the wastages in the ministries are sealed. The issue of corruption that the President has been talking about is a mirage. I have never imagined a country that speaks of finishing corruption and doing exactly the opposite. There are three arms of the Government, namely, the Legislature, the Judiciary and the Executive. The Executive gets the largest allocation in every budget every year followed by the 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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