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    "id": 1211140,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui Central, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Makali Mulu",
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    "content": "On the issue of the NGAAF, we are aware that our County Woman Representatives cover very big areas and we want to support them so that when we entrench the NG-CDF in the Constitution, and the NGAAF is also included. This will ensure that there is no way the busy bodies in this country who seem to have minimal to do and always end up in court have other assignments to do because they are not helping Kenyans. As I conclude, there are two things which are very dear to me which I think we need to consider as a House even as we look into the issue of oversight funds like the NG-CDF and the NGAAF. One of them is the issue of the Ward Fund. We need to be fair to our colleagues, the MCAs, so that even as we devolve the resources through the NG-CDF, we have more resources being devolved at the county level through the Ward Fund. If we implement this, we will develop this country while being independent of any political alignment. Lastly, we have the issue of financial autonomy to county assemblies. Hon Temporary Speaker, you have been in this House for long and you know that the time we used to go for funding as Parliament from the Treasury was chaotic. This is what is happening in our county assemblies where currently the County Executive Committee (CEC), Finance, must sign and approve the budgets. This makes it difficult for them to do their oversight role independently because they are still relying on the Executive to get financing. It is time we ensured that county assemblies have financial autonomy just as the President provided financial autonomy to the Kenya Police Service. It is important that we also support this autonomy for our county assemblies. With these many remarks, I want to urge my colleagues in this House to have very sober discourse so that at the end of the day we can do justice to the proposal by the President and help Kenyans to move to the next level. I thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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