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    "id": 1460633,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I sincerely thank the Chairperson of the Select Committee on the National Government Constituency Development Fund for picking this out. Honestly speaking, it is an irregular, illegal, and unwarranted interference in the implementation of an Act of Parliament that has completely nothing to do with the Office of the Head of Public Service. When the amendments came to entrench the Office of Public Service, we warned the Members here that we were creating a creature that would consume us and eat us in due time. On the other side, my colleagues never saw it but now they have seen what it means to create an unconstitutional office with no mandate at all. We need to call out the Head of Public Service. NG-CDF is not a State corporation or Semi-Autonomous Government Agency (SAGA). It is an entity created by an Act of Parliament that stipulates clearly the procedure to be followed in the appointment of the National Government Constituency Development Fund committee members, the procedure for their removal, gazettement and the rest. We must call to order and stop this excitement and this stretching of executive powers beyond what is provided for in the Constitution. It is the people on the ground who know those people. The Head of Civil Service cannot purport to do another vetting or another approval process. For what purpose? Why does he want to get involved in very petty and minor village issues? There are bigger issues at the national level, instead of wasting time hampering the delivery of services to the Wananchi of Kenya. I, therefore, ask, as Sir George has clearly said, that, that particular instruction or circular, if any, should be ignored with the contempt it deserves. It has no form or force of law, just an over-reaction and excitement for something that has not happened. With those few remarks, I support the Motion and the request by the Hon. Chairperson that the dictates of the Head of Public Service should not control the particular appointment."
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