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"content": "Hon. Members, before the next speaker, I rise to make a clarification. A few weeks ago, the substantive Speaker ruled that Hon Members will be given an opportunity to speak if they have their cards. If you do not have one, they are available at the Clerk’s Office. You can get them to make our work easier. Also, if you have a school visiting from your constituency, write on a piece of paper and place it on my table here to avoid distracting me. This will give everyone an opportunity. With that, I will give two minutes to the Member for Rangwe, Hon. Lilian Gogo, because I know that she is a former student of Ng’iya Girls High School."
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I appreciate you. That is the beauty and power of a woman. I appreciate the great Ng’iya Girls High School, who are seated in the Public Gallery. I am an alumni of the school, which is the only national school in Alego Usonga Constituency, where I was born and brought up. I celebrate the school for making me who I am before I moved to Kisumu Girls High School. I once sat in those seats and slept in the dormitories you are currently sleeping in. I wore that same uniform and tie that you are wearing today. The sky is the limit. The best is yet to come for you. It is your time to do your best at Ng’iya Girls High School. The country is looking up to you. I may not be in this particular seat forever but, I want to tell one of the girls who is seated in the gallery that when my time is over, I want to see one of them occupy my seat. I thank the school for making me who I am today. I appreciate all the girls and the boys too. The men in the House are complaining. Hon. Deputy Speaker, the girls are not able to see you from where they are seated but that seat, which is currently occupied by a woman, will be occupied by one of the girls from Ng’iya Girls High School in future. I appreciate my alma mater, and I am waiting to see how the school will perform this year. I will attend the party."
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"speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Lillian Gogo",
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"content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"
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"content": "Next is the Member for Ganze, Hon. Tungule."
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. At the outset, let me affirm my support for the Regional Development Authorities Bill. I am a member of the Regional Development Committee that came up with this Bill. The RDAs have been here with us since Independence. They have been the engines of development, especially in our rural areas."
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"content": "[The Deputy Speaker (Hon. Gladys Boss) left the Chair]"
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"content": "[The Temporary Speaker (Hon. Omboko Milemba) took the Chair]"
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"content": "They have been operating under different laws and, therefore, their functions have been uncoordinated and haphazard. The outcomes of the operations could not be properly accounted for. Hon. Temporary Speaker, those authorities have the capacity to develop our rural areas if they are given the necessary legal framework. This has been difficult because they have been operating under different Acts of Parliament. This Bill, therefore, seeks to collapse all the different Acts of Parliament and consolidate the operations of the RDAs under one Act of Parliament. One of the benefits of consolidating the RDAs under one law is that their functions will be coordinated and it will be easy to oversee them. This Bill will be beneficial to this country. The Bill also seeks to rectify the very bloated boards that those RDAs have been operating on. Most of the board members do not hail from the areas that the boards operate from. We have six RDAs in this country, which are all operating under different Acts of Parliament but, during the operations of the boards – for instance, the Coast Development Authority (CDA) – you will note that the board members are from other parts of the country. This Bill will reduce the number of board members from 12 to nine to conform to the"
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"content": "Mwongozo"
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"content": "guidelines. Apart from the ex-officio members, the other members will come from the areas where the boards operate. This will be beneficial because many of the board members will be conversant with the issues that affect the people in those areas. The RDAs have been operating even before devolution. Some of the functions of those authorities have been taken up by the county governments, but they still have a big role to play. Some of the devolved functions are under the purview of the counties but, there is still a lot to be done. A function like water services is now under the counties, but there are some projects that the counties cannot execute alone because they are cross-cutting. Some projects need to bring two or three counties together so that they can be effectively done. This is where the RDAs come in. We have seen attempts by counties to form regional bodies so that they can pull resources together. Hon. Temporary Speaker, there have been complaints or attempts by the Council of Governors to disband the RDAs. The role that the RDAs are playing is complementing and supplementing what the counties are doing. We already know that the counties have so much in their hands, and they are not effectively carrying out their functions. Bringing an extra hand to help them perform their functions is not bad at all. Much as we appreciate what the counties are doing, there are some roles that the RDAs can play to benefit the counties. We have seen attempts by various counties to form economic blocks. If we pool resources from various quarters, we can be more effective in our undertakings. So, it is high time that the Council of Governors supports what the RDAs are doing on the ground because I am very sure that they are complementing their roles. With those remarks, I support the Bill. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"
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