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    "id": 1183224,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1183224/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugunja, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I was saying that this is a historic moment for this country. We are passing a Motion to create an adhoc Committee that will midwife the first amendment to the Constitution of Kenya 2010. It is a situation that I am likening to what happened in the United States of America four years after the promulgation of their Constitution in 1786 in Philadelphia. When the Americans realised that they needed to introduce certain liberties like freedom of expression, freedom of religion, freedom of association and so forth, they introduced the First Amendment to their Constitution. This first amendment to the Constitution of Kenya 2010 will be about economic freedom. For the first time, we will have the NG-CDF, among other funds, entrenched in the Constitution so as to finally put a stop to the shenanigans that we have always witnessed from busybodies. I am very delighted that we have this chance in our lifetime to make history. A lot has been said about the NG-CDF which I do not wish to belabour, but I concur with Hon. John Mbadi that this ad hoc Committee does not need 90 days. We do not have the luxury of time. It can do this work and complete it in under 30 days so that we fast-track the process of entrenching the NG-CDF, among other funds, in the Constitution. Hon. Deputy Speaker, even as we work towards entrenching the NG-CDF and these other funds in the Constitution to ensure that we have a long-term solution to threats that this fund has been facing, we should not lose sight of the short-term solution to the disbursement problem that we have. The short-term problem, which requires a short-term solution, is that we currently do not have NG-CDF funds in the constituencies’ accounts. Unless something happens, we may not have those funds until next year, God knows which month. Let us deal with this Motion as a matter of addressing the long-term problem while at the same time we deal with the short-term problem. I wish the Chairperson of the NG-CDF Committee is here. I wonder why he is away when we are dealing with such an important Motion touching on his docket."
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