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    "id": 1194612,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Embakasi West, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mark Mwenje",
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        "id": 1429,
        "legal_name": "George Theuri",
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    "content": "One of the things that I want to request, as we discuss, and I would be making amendment to the Act, is that we must consider population as well. For us, new Members, we noticed that the distribution was based on wards. I would submit that those of us who represent urban constituencies like mine in particular, where I have over 280,000 people, the population needs to be a factor. The way wards were created in 2010 was not fair. There are constituencies with more wards and lesser people. Secondly, we have the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC). We will have junior secondary coming in, and before you know it… Members who have been here in the past have been giving bursaries to secondary school students from Form One to Form Four, for over four years. Next year, we will add a fifth year and a sixth year. We will, therefore, have more people coming to apply for bursaries. The issue of having the Act being challenged in court must come to a stop. Hon. Temporary Speaker, right now, all Members are getting calls from their constituents that they need bursaries. Some of us still have dilapidated schools, and quite a number are overcrowded, especially in Nairobi, and with insufficient security apparatus in some of our constituencies, only the NG-CDF can remedy this issue. As I finalise, there is an error in drafting it as the Senate Oversight Fund. It is important that we look at it as the Parliamentary Oversight Fund, because if we call it the Senate Oversight Fund, then it should be based on the revenue that has been allocated to the county. However, the way it has been drafted as a Parliamentary Oversight Fund, you can then get a share from the national cake. We really need to consider this. I also believe the issue of the Economic Stimulus Fund should be separated from the other three funds. The other three funds should be conjoined so that they either pass together or we all perish. Finally, I believe the 5 per cent will be the main issue. I really pray that we will not get compromised, as a House, by the Executive, so that we can protect this 5 per cent. With that, I support."
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