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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Fafi, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Farah Yakub",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this chance. I stand to add my voice as I support the Motion. The Bill underlines the importance of Regional Development Authorities (RDAs). It is meant to harmonise the scattered Acts that govern RDAs to be one and align their functions with the Constitution. It provides for appointment of directors in numbers that are in line with the Mwongozo Code. It also gives the jurisdiction of each and every RDA regarding the areas they cover. Initially, there was an overlapping area of jurisdiction within the RDAs. The Bill also states the functions of RDAs and what entails the co-operation between the RDAs and the county governments. I have heard most Members supporting the Bill, but showing dissatisfaction with the fact that RDAs have outlived their time and usefulness. As one of the Members from the marginalised areas – that is Fafi Constituency in Garissa County - I stand to confirm their usefulness. The biggest and only dam in the county since Independence was done by Coast Development Authority (CDA). It cost a meagre Ksh240 million. It was done three years ago while we had the county governments. The same can be said of Bura Constituency, which also has the same type of dam that was constructed at a cost of Ksh240 million. Today as we speak, after the El-Nino rains, that dam is filled to a capacity of 300,000 cubic metres. The projection is that, four years from now, the catchment within that dam will have no scarcity of water. The people of Mariakani got a milk processing plant. The mama mbuzi in Mariakani are today reaping the importance of that factory courtesy of the CDA. Bura Constituency, which hosts small-scale fruit farmers, especially mango farmers, now boasts of a fruit processing plant. All this is courtesy of the CDA. Hon. Temporary Speaker, one of the major vegetation covers in Northern Kenya is the Acacia plant. That plant is seen as a useless plant, but one of the families of the Acacia plant produces gum, which is called Arabica. It is a very useful pharmaceutical ingredient. Ewaso Nyiro North Development Authority came up with a plan and constructed the only Gum Arabica producing factory in Wajir County. If put in full operationalisation capacity, it will create a US $15 billion-dollar economy. It is such an economy that has developed Sudan. Ewaso Nyiro South Authority boasts of the only functioning leather processing plant in the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"
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