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    "id": 1211279,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Masinga, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joshua Mwalyo",
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    "content": " We are going to share with Hon. Kirwa. Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute. And because the President has already sent his proposal to this House, I want to air my views on a few of those proposals so that it can be written that I also said something. I have been a Member of the NG-CDF Committee for two terms now. This is my second term being a Member of that Committee in this Parliament. There is no doubt that anything that is done by the NG-CDF is done in an open manner. There is transparency, accountability and value for money. The way the proposals are done and evaluated by the NG-CDF Board is above board. Therefore, it is the right thing to entrench it in the Constitution so that those who keep going to the courts can stop. We are helping the Government to perform its duty on education and schools’ infrastructure and we have done a wonderful work. I, therefore, support that the NG-CDF should be entrenched in the Constitution. Secondly, I also support the two-thirds gender rule because it is in the wisdom of the President that this House achieves it so that the Judiciary can stop sending us home. You will recall that in the last Parliament, we were almost going home because it had been pronounced so. We, therefore, need it done. The President, in his own wisdom, has seen it fit that we use that formula in order to fulfil the two-thirds gender rule. As a House, we should all support it. We need to be behind whatever he wants to do. Thirdly, I support the creation of the Office of the Official Opposition. This is because as it is right now, the winner takes it all. The Opposition is then left outside in the cold without an office or a budget. If somebody is not busy, they will always device ways of doing other things. We need to keep the Opposition busy the way other mature democracies do by having their offices fully funded by the Government. Kenya is not an exception. Therefore, I support the creation of that office so that we can have our brothers and sisters who are in the Opposition have an office where they can air their views."
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