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    "id": 1105673,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "in all the villages to gather this information. That is because the rest of Government will not operate with authority. Those are some of the operational challenges that were found that once you create this authority, you will need it to have offices in every village where there is a person living with disability, a vulnerable child and an older person so that they can collect that information and bring it centrally as an authority. If you are going to use the rest of Government to get all this information for the authority, then you do not need the authority. That is the whole reason for a compelling case for having the authority. Since you do not have that compelling case for the authority, then you look at what else is within the Bill or the Act. As a result, it collapses. Everything has been done since 2004 and the proof of the funding is in Njoro. It has worked since 2013. The number has moved to 1.2 million people and it has been working without an authority. There was no compelling need for the authority in the first place. More importantly, this conflicts with the provisions of the PFM Act and how it works with the rest of Government. The Bill may not have been well thought out in the first instance and hence, there is no point of having a statute in the books that does not work. I want to request Members that we clean it up. Let us repeal all the unnecessary laws. This is not the only one. There will be several others coming in terms of repeal of some of the laws that are in statute books, but are not working. This is part of cleaning up of the laws through the way of the Government and the law reform people. That is basically the real need for the repeal of this. It is not in any way intended to reduce or diminish the value of the Social Assistance Program. It is meant to ensure that we do not use all the money for social assistance towards paying the overheads of a special authority, which is only being created to manage this money. It could actually end up gobbling the entire amount and the people who are the beneficiaries will receive nothing. With those remarks, I beg to reply."
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