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    "id": 1571706,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitutu Masaba, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Clive Gisairo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Firstly, let me start by congratulating and thanking Hon. Otiende Amollo and Hon. Samwel Chepkonga for bringing this Bill to this House. The 2010 Constitution had very good intentions on devolution. However, it did not foresee a point where we are going to create 47 demigods. People who control funds, but the funds do not reflect in the lives of the people. The 47 demigods know that they cannot be summoned by this House; they can only be summoned by the Senate, which has little or no say on the direction of whatever they do. The Senators are not even able to know what actual projects are taking place in their counties. Members of Parliament are called by constituents to complain about dysfunctional services in the counties, matters that should be handled by the Senators. It is in that spirit that we feel that the Senators should get the Senate Oversight Fund. This will allow them to walk the streets of their counties, visit dispensaries, hospitals, and primary schools with Early Childhood Development and Education (ECDE) classes to confirm whether those infrastructures are being done and done in the right way. As a House, we therefore have to support this provision to ensure that Senators are well and properly resourced to oversee our 47 demigods. Resources will never be enough. We cannot reach everyone individually. And that is the spirit of having the National Government Affirmative Action Fund (NGAAF), to allow the women representatives to identify and support vulnerable cases within our communities. The NGAAF has done a commendable job. In my county, I have seen women and young people's groups being empowered to get their lives together. We have seen girls getting sanitary towels, things that we see as basics, but millions of our Kenyan youth cannot afford. Their parents are not able. NGAAF should not only be entrenched here, but the amount should at least be doubled to enable the vulnerable in the community to be taken care of in the right manner. 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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