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    "id": 1211229,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Isiolo South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Bidu Mohamed",
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    "content": "what we said, which is presidential. We are getting a lot of hiccups here and there because of this system of governance. The Executive, experts and people yearning for power in Kenya are fighting. They are not coming out clearly. They are not honest with the people of this country. They should come up with a system that is like systems of countries we have been copying from, whether it is the United Kingdom or the United States of America. However, we are not going that way. What we are doing is to try to be in-between and that is the cause of these problems. These problems can only be solved by the people of Kenya. They can do it through a referendum. Bringing these proposals here does not add any value to us because to change a system of governance, you have to go through a referendum. Hon. Temporary Speaker, there are other proposals that have been brought up. Issues like NGAAF, NG-CDF and the Oversight Fund are critical. They are supposed to be brought on their own account to this House so that we can pass them. I do not think it would have taken us all these years. We are now trying to lock them in the Constitution by using other things that are far off them. That will change the context of the Constitution whereas in real sense, we would have finished off the issue of NGAAF, NG-CDF and the oversight fund for the Senate separately. I agree with my friend who said that the NG-CDF is supposed to be overseen. According to the Constitution, we are supposed to oversee the budgetary allocations of the national Government. We are supposed to be given an oversight fund to facilitate us to do that, but it is not given. It has been said that the NG-CDF has been misused by Members of Parliament. It has never been so. The NG-CDF has shown on the ground that it is doing more than what is allocated to the county governments. On county governments, I am talking about devolved functions. In real sense, what is seen on the ground when it comes to the NG-CDF cannot be compared to the county government expenditure on the ground. Right now, there is drought in my constituency. All the livestock is almost perishing. What have I done? I had to pay every secondary school going kid in my constituency from the NG-CDF. I relieved them and people are happy. I am expecting the County Government to equally play its part of educating the people of Isiolo. What I am saying is that the NG-CDF is very important. The oversight fund for the Senate and the National Assembly, NGAAF and the NG-CDF should be increased. If you see the amount of money for devolution in the revenue sharing formulae that goes to counties, it is too small compared to what is collected nationally. A chunk of it is supposed to be given for oversight by the Members of Parliament. What we are seeing on the ground done by devolution can be put into more use with Members’ supervision of the big chunk of the money that is given to county governments. There are leakages in the county governments. We have heard about pending bills being generated every other day. The small money that we are getting from the NG-CDF seems to be going to the right places. Some of us come from marginalised counties. This is the only time we are getting funds at par with other counties. In the last Parliament, we were threatened with the politics of one man- one shilling. The marginalised areas would have received less funds. Every county is now getting almost the same amount of money. That is the Kenya that we want. We are supposed to share everything. Help those who are down to rise; do not suppress them. I would have requested the President to give more money to the NG-CDF because it helps the people on the ground - the hustlers. On the two-thirds gender rule, men and women are equal. That is what everybody is advocating for. Everybody should fight for their space. There are a lot of women here who campaigned and won. We do not need to waste a lot of time on some of these things. Let us have 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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