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    "id": 1418608,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Naivasha, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jayne Kihara",
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    "content": "When your time comes, you will speak. I sat here waiting for this chance. I will be very brief. I support this important Bill. If Members know how important it is, they can support it. We shall collaborate with the regional development authorities in projects, the same way we do with ministries but, I agree that they need to be re-aligned with the Constitution. They also need to be streamlined with the other existing legislations. This will ensure that they are well- structured and easy to oversee. Those authorities are important, but there has to be a way of overseeing them. During my first term in Parliament, there was a dam project that was supposed to be done in Longonot. Money was paid but water was not produced. The contractors did not even come to the site but, in the papers, a dam project was done there. As opposed to regionalism, my concern is on public participation. If there is a project in my constituency, there should be public participation. If they involved the community in public participation in the Longonot Dam Project, they would have told them that they would not get water because there is no stream around that area. The aim of the project was to consume money. Public participation is important. Most monies that those regional development authorities have come from the donors. How are they policed? How do we know which donor has sent money and to which project? Most of the functions also cut across the counties. I cannot say that a specific amount of money or projects should go to counties because they do not know what happens or how they choose them. This should be done at the national level. They should also be policed. There should be regulations on how they will be policed. Our region is under Ewaso Nyiro South River Basin 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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