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    "id": 1063937,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1063937/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, the country is watching. At the end of the day, Kenyans want to know what we will do to better their lives through this Bill. I must go on record that the initiative could be noble. The initiative to expand the Executive and create positions of authority and influence to ensure that no part of this country feels left out in Government, is a noble thing to do. The initiative to ensure that 35 per cent of revenues collected nationally is shared among counties, is a noble idea, only that we might need to do a lot more in terms of administrative and policy interventions to bake a bigger cake so that we have 35 per cent to share among counties. It is a noble idea. It is a noble idea to have a Ward Development Fund (WDF), so that decisions on development of wards are not the governor’s, but legislated. The only thing I have a problem with is a situation where amidst all these very good things we want to do, but there seems to be a mischief in trying to allocate constituencies to the disadvantage of certain other areas in this country. This must be said as it is. The import of this Bill is that we will have at least 40 new constituencies in Mt. Kenya region. There is no problem with that. However, out of 70 constituencies, 40 of them are being allocated to one region. The rest of the country has to grapple and share the remaining 30 constituencies. That is not right. It will be right for us to allow the IEBC to use whatever parameters they will use to ensure the distribution, sharing and allocation of these constituencies is acceptable across board."
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