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    "id": 1181362,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Major (Rtd) Abdullahi Sheikh (",
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    "content": "Mandera North, UDM): Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. The Petition that has been presented to this House is certainly quite in order. I am sure, as directed, it will go through the relevant committee. However, the Petition talks about creating additional offices which in my understanding talks about curing the issue of winner-takes-all. When you go for elections, there is a winner and a loser. That has to be accepted. The point we are talking about here is creating offices. As it has been alluded to earlier by some of my colleagues, we have pressing issues at this point in time, and one of them is drought. I think trying to create more offices that were initially contained in the BBI which has now been rejected is not in order. In this new administration, we already have a position by the name Prime Cabinet Secretary. Introducing another position of Prime Minister, that in itself is just a burden to the taxpayers. We have issues to discuss and unfortunately, these are things that were contained in the BBI. It was itself costly to the taxpayers. Introducing it now and trying to address it is a matter that will be a burden to the taxpayer. We have issues that are very peculiar and prime to Kenyans. One of them is the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG- CDF) that touches the lives of the people on the ground. That is something that we need to take up and ensure it is entrenched in the Constitution."
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