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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitutu Chache North, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jimmy Angwenyi",
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        "legal_name": "Jimmy Nuru Ondieki Angwenyi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me a chance to contribute to this important Bill. There is nothing that can be prepared by human beings to be perfect. There is nothing that can be perfect. Therefore, we should weigh the positive and negative sides of the Bill. According to me, the positive side is much higher than the negative side. For instance, as one of the architects of the NG-CDF, the fact that NG-CDF has been anchored in the Constitution, that is supposed to be development. We are having the Ward Development Fund that is going to help our people to realise some of the developments that we cannot achieve with the NG-CDF alone. The issue of giving our youths time off to pay whatever bursaries and loans they have taken from the Government while they are in school is also a positive development. The other positive development is that from now on, once this Bill has gone through and is enacted as law, we will be sending to the counties a substantial amount of money; 35 per cent of the national cake. That means we will be sending money to the grass roots. The county level is the grass root level. With our NG-CDF, which has been anchored in the Constitution, we will mobilise resources to develop our local areas. I would urge the Members of this House that we support this Bill. We support it. If you have an issue that you think has not been well addressed, you can bring a Bill. We are allowed to bring Bills to Parliament to address such issues. In the meantime, let us support this Bill. Let us allow each one of us to contribute. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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