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    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "Again, Clause 12(3) introduces an administrative baggage to the Fund. It provides for not more than 3 per cent of the approved annual allocation to the Fund to run the secretariat. Again, the secretariat is just made up of Government technocrats, civil servants and public servants. Essentially, this will amount to double payment. We could save that money to undertake other programmes. In its ruling concerning the constitutionality of the NG-CDF, the High Court noted that the county assemblies and Parliament are not implementing agencies. Accordingly, since they do not belong to the Executive arms of the two levels of government, they cannot implement any Government programmes. However, under Clause 17(d) of this Bill, among the members who will establish the county technical committees is a representative of the relevant county assembly. The question is on the role of the county assembly in executing Executive functions. That matter needs to be addressed during the Committee of the whole House. The Bill also contains other issues like typos. I can attribute that to the failure of the Senate to understand the structure of the national Government. We can correct those errors during the Committee of the whole House. We also need to address a fundamental issue. There was the first policy concerning the Equalisation Fund that ran into headwinds, and it was never implemented. There is the second policy that is to be implemented under the Regulations that this Bill seeks to repeal, and it has not worked. It is, therefore, important that the Commission on Revenue Allocation comes up with a third policy, in view of the extended period in the event this Bill is enacted into law, so that some pockets of marginalised areas that were left out can be included in the programme. Busia County as a whole is a disadvantaged county yet you find not more than five wards have been included among the marginalised areas. Some areas with rainfall failure and food scarcity, like Bwiri Ward of Funyula Constituency and sections of Namboboto-Nambuku Ward, as well as Ageng’a-Nanguba Ward, have not been included. We urge the Commission on Revenue Allocation to have a fresh look as we roll out a third policy that will enable equity and fair distribution of the funds meant to bring equity to the entire country. With those remarks, I second the Bill with the reservation that I have raised, which must be addressed during the Committee of the whole House."
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