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"speaker_name": "Hon. Omboko Milemba",
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"content": " Next is Hon. Christine Ombaka."
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"speaker_name": "Siaya County, ODM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Christine Ombaka",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I just want to welcome Ng’iya Girls High School to this august House because this is the first time that they have been here. I want to tell the girls that this is where we work – represent our constituencies and make laws that are meant to protect you, and encourage you to improve your lives. We have talked about education and empowerment for the girl child. This is where we debate about it. Ng’iya Girls High is a school that has brought out many strong women in this country. In a European sense, it is an Ivy League kind of school, the best of the best. Therefore, girls, aim high, work hard and join us one day when the opportunity comes. I expect you to complete your education and excel in life. The sky is the limit. Thank you and God bless you."
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"content": " Hon. Christine, I thought you would be speaking on the Bill but you have had your way. Nevertheless, let us have Hon. Phyllis Bartoo speaking next. Do we have her in the House? If you are not speaking on this Motion, I can move to the next Member."
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"speaker_name": "Moiben, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Phylis Bartoo",
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"content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, I am not speaking on this particular one."
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"content": " Thank you. Let us have Hon. Eckomas Mutuse. Are you in the House? There is the general tendency by Members to key in to speak on matters that may have already lapsed. Therefore, I request you, Members, to refresh the requests kits. Key in afresh so that I know who would want to speak on this debate?"
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"speaker_name": "Kibwezi West, MCCP",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Mwengi Mutuse",
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"content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, I rise under Standing Order 95 to request that the Mover be called upon to reply."
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"content": " Order, Hon. Mutuse. You are completely out of order. You are not even sure of what you want to speak on. Secondly, it is wrong for you rise under Standing Order No.95 at this particular time. Let us have the Deputy Leader of the Majority Party speak on this debate. Give him the microphone."
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"speaker_name": "Kilifi North, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
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"content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, the Regional Development Authorities Bill is very important. I would like to urge Members to contribute to it because it affects us. We must align the RDAs to the Constitution because some of the mandates they have taken belong to the county government and, hence, becoming counter-productive. This is a constitutional issue because the RDAs want to undertake water, education, roads and health functions and yet, some of those functions belong to the national Government while others belong to the county governments. The county governments should be given space to do their work as provided in the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution. To continue to have the RDAs in the national Government, with functions that cut across the two levels of government, is in contravention of the Constitution. Therefore, they must be aligned. The RDAs need to choose to be mammals or birds. We currently have nine RDAs doing work that is cross-cutting. We must abide by the Constitution. Where should they lie in the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution? Should they lie in the national Government or the county governments? There has been an argument by the governors – which I support - to some extent because they have been setting regional blocks that require money so that they can perform the functions of the county governments. We have been denying the regional blocks resources because we have been taking the money to the RDAs and yet, they do not have the mandate to do the work of the county governments. I will introduce an amendment to this law and have my say during the Third Reading so that, instead 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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"speaker_name": "Kilifi North, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
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"content": "of having those RDAs that consume money by paying a lot of staff and doing nothing, we hand them over to the regional blocks and fund them to perform the functions of the county governments. Some of the RDAs receive a lot of money from donors. In the case of the Coast Development Authority (CDA), it has received millions of shillings from the Italian Government. However, we see them sitting and dividing the tenders amongst their colleagues and families. At the end of the day, the coastal people do not benefit from the Authority because there is no structure to govern them. Even the Cabinet Secretary responsible for the RDAs has no say under the statutes governing those RDAs. They operate like parastatals and yet, we know that they are not parastatals. They consume a lot of money from the national Government and give no results. I would like us to strengthen them so that they can either undertake county government functions or national Government functions. It will give us an opportunity to send more money to the county governments for development, if we allow the RDAs to be what are now the economic blocks that we have. We have Jumuiya ya Kaunti za Pwani (JKP) in the Coast and the Lake Region Economic Block (LREB). The economic blocks are doing work that the governors should be doing. So, there is a conflict in law and I hope my friend, the Chairperson who is here, takes cognizance of those facts so that we can reform the RDAs. However, they must choose where to belong. They cannot be a cow and a goat at the same time. They have to choose who they want to be so that we get the benefits for the money that we put in them. We also need to align them to the Mwongozo on governance. I think they have many board members. How do you give membership of the CDA Board to someone who has never been to the Coast region and understands nothing about the region? How does he sit down to decide development issues for a region he understands nothing about? How do you take a person from the Coast region to the LREB to discuss issues of the lake region that he understands nothing about?"
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"speaker_name": "Kitutu Chache North, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Japheth Nyakundi",
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"content": " On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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