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    "id": 1219919,
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    "speaker_name": "Gatundu South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. GG Kagombe",
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    "content": "matters to them. When we start fighting such a fund, then you deny the lowest people in the society access to have their ideas listened to and implemented by the fund that comes from the taxes that they pay. Hon. Temporary Speaker, other ministries should have probably done their work. We just got the bursary funds and the Ministry of Education should have identified a way of addressing issues of disparities between people who can pay and those who cannot. As it is, we have the law as it ought to be. As it stands, in as much as we would want the Ministry to do that, it is unable to. It is unable to provide for children who are not going to school. However, a Member of Parliament with the NG-CDF Committee is able to find the lowest people of society and accord them bursaries. As it stands, we have children who have not accessed Form One because they have no school fees. We have children who are out of school because we have not disbursed their bursaries. The situation on the ground is such that we have disparities and a lot of trouble with finances. I support the implementation and anchoring the NG-CDF and the NGAAF and other affirmative action funds into the Constitution. Hon. Temporary Speaker, we have been treated to a lot of drama in the recent past. When I see the leader of the opposition waking up in the morning and telling people to go to Jeevanjee Gardens, I realise that we do not have a properly anchored position of the leader of official opposition. We normally say that exercising power without responsibility is the prerogative of the harlot. We must stop the opposition from just disrupting economies of other people and the economic activities of Kenyans. How do we do that? We need accountability and an opposition that is structured. It is very important to have an effective opposition that is able to put the Government in check. We cannot do that when the leader of the opposition is somewhere sitting under a tree. We need the Office of the Leader of Official Opposition structured within the law such that when they are putting the Government in check, they exercise their authority and power. That is the only way we are going to avoid these issues of addressing people on the streets and rooftops of cars. We need a proper office that can address the Executive and can be brought to Parliament so that we can consider what has been recommended by the official opposition. That is the only way to put the Government in check. Even as I sit on this side of the Government, I know that people left to their elements are capable and have proximity and affinity to be selfish and make very selfish decisions. We need a proper working opposition. That is why I support the President when he says that this Parliament finds it fit to anchor the Office of the Leader of Official Opposition here in Parliament. Structure it in a Bill and in an Act that can be dealt with and that is capable of coming and standing here in Parliament and be considered so that the recommendations of the opposition are heard in Parliament and considered within the law. Finally…"
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