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    "id": 1018123,
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    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity. Respectfully, I wish to disagree with the Committee. I wish to say that I support, but with amendments. The Committee has raised a very fundamental legal issue. They are saying that there are legal frameworks that are providing for this Bill. I had not looked at them. I am going to look at them in-depth. However, from my understanding of those frameworks, first, the Constitution gives a very broad legal framework. Therefore, what provides the detailed framework of implementation is a law. It is a secondary legislation. The other issue that is of concern to me, which may not necessarily relate to this Bill, and which I previously raised before this House, is that I am seeing things that come to this House which could easily be part of policy and not really legal amendments. I sometimes also see even four or five similar legal amendments or provisions that come to the House. To me, this speaks to the fact that our legal personnel could be overwhelmed. Maybe, our number has increased significantly and we have not increased the number of the legal personnel to help them cope with the numbers that have come with a very brilliant House, especially if you are dealing with Parliament as a whole not just the National Assembly. However, what they are trying to do is to ensure equitable share of projects across the county. What happens in many counties is that once the governors get the money, the minority communities might suffer. Areas where people did not support the governor’s election might also suffer. The funds that would go to them may be less. The only challenge I have with this Bill is that it also makes provisions that take away the role of the County Executive, which is basically implementation. In addition, I was hoping that this Bill could try to mirror what is happening at the national level, so that even if we wanted to empower members of the county assemblies (MCAs), then they have a fund which is similar to the NG-CDF, if that is the way we want it to go. Otherwise, there needs to be a framework that states clearly the way to divide and distribute resources across counties. The only challenge is that even as the Mover has those intentions, I do not see it very properly executed because even when they are talking about communities ensuring that they come up with projects, they are not saying exactly how that is to be effected. 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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