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    "id": 1386042,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bondo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Ochanda",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. The Bill attempts to sanitise regional development authorities. They have important roles but, in this time and space, their time is gone. All the things that they have been listed to do are also done by other authorities. The Constitution of Kenya, 2010, knows only two authorities: the county governments and national Government. There is nowhere else where another authority is recognised in the Constitution. This House must place the regional development authorities where they belong. They do not belong between county governments and national Government. That is not right. The best we can do is not to sanitise the regional development authorities, but place them under the Regional Economic Blocs. They can be secretariats there. Instead of having Lake Basin Development Authority covering regions from Mount Elgon to Bomet, the authority can be a secretariat in charge of the Lake Region Economic Bloc (LREB). It will deal with specific issues of that region. That will be much more useful than having an illegal authority which has duplicating roles. For example, what should a regional development authority do in bee keeping? In Rift Valley, Kerio Valley Development Authority keeps bees. Lake Basin Development Authority also keeps bees. Why do they keep bees? Why should a regional development authority do that? The Lake Basin Development Authority keeps fish. Where is this mentioned in the Constitution? Where is bee keeping mentioned in the Constitution?"
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