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    "id": 1194550,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ruaraka, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. T. J. Kajwang’",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, five minutes is short I may not do justice to this amendment. I want to be the devil’s advocate here. We have agreed as senior counsel. Hon. Otiende Amollo has said that the drafting of the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) is well done. We can work on the mathematics of 5 per cent or whichever percentage, but the drafting looks good. I want to ask the promoters of these Bills to draw a small caucus that will assist them. This Bill is so important for us to waste. Anything that will make us succeed is important. They should have a small caucus that will direct them, especially on the drafting and on the constitutional law around it. For example, I have seen they have talked about the Senate Oversight Fund and other things like economic stimulus. We do not want anything that will poison the NG-CDF. If you want to know how poison works, remember the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) Bill. The BBI Bill was killed because some people who thought they knew more than others put so much poison that it could not be consumed. So, we do not want to do anything that will not let us have the NG-CDF. I propose that every Bill should go on its own so that nothing poisons the other. If a Bill falls, let it fall by itself. We do not want something to spoil the broth that we will make. When we talk about the Senate Oversight Fund, what we are forgetting is that there is Article 127(6) of the Constitution which gives Parliamentary Service Commission the authority to facilitate Members. Now, it is another matter as to whether Parliament has been doing this or if it is sufficient for Senate. We will have problems. The first question we will have to ask is if that provision that we are going to put is consistent with Article 127(6) of the Constitution. Two, there is no institution called the Senate. The institution that the Constitution knows is Parliament. Did I say it the other way round? There is nothing called the Senate in terms of the Constitution. What the Constitution knows is Parliament. So, you cannot talk about giving oversight to a specific body as though you want to change the institutions that run around The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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