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    "id": 1368682,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilgoris, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Sunkuli",
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    "content": "In my opinion, it is unfortunate that Members of Parliament have continued to play a lesser role as we pass this law. That is the problem of democracy. The people accountable for constituencies are Members of Parliament. Separation of powers seem to have been interpreted widely. So, it looks like there is an issue and Members are restrained from being directly involved. Separation of powers in my opinion has been abused in this regard. I do not think that when Montesquieu stated separation of powers he foresaw these exceptions. There are many parts in the Constitution of Kenya where separation of powers is not applied for instance, there was a time when the Attorney-General was a Member of Parliament, Member of the Executive and Head of the Bar. At that time there was no separation of powers issue. I am not trying to campaign for that system to be brought back. We have to work with what we have and ensure we lessen in as much as possible, the criticism held by members of the public, who do not believe that NG-CDF works. I have been a Member of Parliament for one year now. I was here for 10 years and I looked back at the amount of development I did because we raised money through Harambee. During those years, we raised a total amount of Ksh25 million. People thought we did a lot of development because we would raise Ksh100,000, Ksh200,000 or barely Ksh1 million for schools. That was what we did then. Even, when they did not want Members of Parliament to participate, we were the ones being invited to Harambee. In those days, schools developed courtesy of Members of Parliament. For this one year alone, I have seen NG-CDF undertake 36 projects in Kilgoris like two laboratories, two teachers’ houses, building and renovation of classrooms. This is what is practically happening on the ground. For those 10 years, I never reached that level."
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