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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
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    "content": "Clause 30 of the Bill provides for services and documentation. It says that a notice or document shall be served on the council by delivering them at the office of the director-general. The last part of the Bill that is clauses 32 to 33 of the Bill, proposes transitional provisions. We need to transit from the Secretariat that sits at the National Treasury to a full autonomous organisation, the NCPD, that is established and anchored in law. Therefore, the current secretariat and members that are there will transition to the new organisation. In conclusion, I urge Members to support this Bill as it strengthens the implementation of the population programmes, and enhances inter-agency collaboration. This Bill is an important piece of legislation to ensure that all the gains we have had through the NCPD, which has been there for many years, can now be anchored in law for perpetuity. It will also ensure that we have an organisation that looks at the population policy in this country. We do not want to end up the Chinese way. We are Africans and children are a blessing. Bigger population is good for a country. However, we need to control it in such a way that development programmes financing and other factors come together in a harmonised way. What we do in our schools, universities, food production and economic activities that we have in the country are about the population size. Therefore, this is an important Bill that we must anchor in law to ensure the perpetuity of that organisation. More importantly, we need to deal firmly with population matters and development. I thank you and request Hon. Bashir to second."
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