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    "id": 1384861,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Samburu East, KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jackson Lekumontare",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I support the Bill. What was proposed here is how these authorities will be standardised. When these authorities are standardised, it does not mean that they will do the same functions. Each authority will have its functions. The primary purpose of these authorities when they were created was to look at the needs of a particular place and their requirements in terms of development. Indeed, some parts of Kenya are still behind in terms of development. Despite the fact that we have county governments, there is still no water in some areas. That makes these authorities important. It is true that although we want things to be equal in this country, we are not there yet. If you look at what the Constitution is trying to do, it created something called an \"equalization fund\" so that areas that were left behind are brought at par with the other areas. But what has it done if we are all saying these areas are still not equal? These authorities are very important to some of us. If you go to some parts of this country, there are no roads, yet in other places, there are roads all over. Therefore, we are better off going with these authorities and line them with the Mwongozo that will also guide all the departments and ministries in Government so that, at least, we have something uniform. If you look at the appointment of the directors or the Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), the requirements should be the same. It should not be, for example, that in one authority they will need a director who has five years of experience and in another, a director who has ten years of experience, yet all these authorities are, in fact, at the same level. We need to align their requirements in terms of education. We do not expect to see some authorities requiring a director to have a master's degree while others have a first degree. That will make all of them standard so that their requirements are all the same. That will be very important. I really want to support the Bill. We should have a law that will bring all these authorities together. That is not to say that they do the same function. For example, we have the Northern Water Works Development Agency (NWWDA) – we used to call it the Northern Water Services Boards – that still does the functions it did before. If the Lake Basin Development Authority does something different, it will still… The needs of our places are not the same. This is a good Bill. Let us support it so that we can have a standardised law for all these authorities. Thank you."
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