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    "speaker_name": "Ainabkoi, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Samwel Chepkonga",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. First, I thank Hon. Mwenje for being candid and admitting that the cost of living is no longer an issue because the cost of unga has come down due to natural forces, which he admits is as a result of the reduction of the price of fertilizers. We now have sufficient ugali in our homesteads. I want to congratulate the team that came up with the NADCO Report. I had an opportunity to appear as the Co-Chair of the Joint Committee for both the National Assembly and the Senate in regard to constitutional amendments that were proposed by this House – entrenchment in the Constitution of the NG-CDF and the NGAAF, and on the question of ensuring that we remove all senseless cases. There are people who just earn money. They have become professionals in suing NG-CDF. I know of one party which has sued the NG-CDF 10 times. It has become a profession for him. Unfortunately, the courts do not award costs when they lose cases. The entrenchment of NG-CDF in the Constitution will completely obliterate and affricate the purported public litigation interest cases. Secondly, I support this Report because of the convergence of thoughts in respect to the IEBC. I hope we are going to remove what we saw when I was a Commissioner of the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC), where we were given names of people to be appointed to the panel; and on the other hand, those people who were appointed to the panel were also given names of those who were to be appointed to the Commission. That is why we had a stalemate in the Commission. We wanted to advertise but we were told we could not, and that those were the people we were to appoint. The others purported to advertise and were told to pick so-and-so. The process, therefore, became flawed because they were partisan. We, therefore, hope that this thing will completely remove the partisanship that we saw. We thank the Chairs of the Departmental Committees on Housing, Urban Planning and Public Works, and Finance and National Planning because the affordable housing programme is in this NADCO Report. I do not know why people walked out yet it is a consensus thing. I want to thank and congratulate the NADCO team for coming up with affordable housing as a theme in the Report. I support."
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