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    "id": 1194650,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bondo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Ochanda",
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    "content": "entrenching them in the Constitution at one-go might be a problem. We may want to entrench all of them at once and end up losing all of them. The best thing is to go one by one. The fund that I am not so pleased about is the Senate Oversight Fund. Immediately we even start thinking about it, we find that there is a big problem. First, it is illegal. The Senate has money under Parliamentary Budget for oversight. It is provided every year. Whatever the Senate does is what we exactly do. Talking of NG-CDF, it is not a function of parliament. It is function that is reposted elsewhere outside Parliament. In the same manner that the National Assembly is facilitated to conduct oversight, the Senate is provided with funds for purposes of oversight. If we make the mistake of creating another Fund for purposes of oversight by the Senate, it would be unconstitutional. I want to remind Members that we gave the Senate money in the name of trying to come up with an oversight stuff in 2018, 2019 and in 2020. However, that programme was not implemented because the money went to the Department of Planning, and the Department did not know what to do with the money because there was no regulation. There was no direction in terms of what they were supposed to do with that money. So, what I am trying to say here is that apart from the illegality, there are some of those things that are not going to be right. Lastly, the Constitution has the Equalization Fund enshrined to it. The Equalization Fund has not been implemented in a proper sense for the last 10 years yet it is constitutional. This is because it lacks certain details that the NG-CDF, for example, has. If we enshrine the NG-CDF, it will be ahead of the Equalisation Fund. Thank you."
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