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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Elmi",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Development of Northern Kenya and other Arid Lands",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 82,
        "legal_name": "Mohamed Ibrahim Elmi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I want to support the Motion and I want to give reasons. I would not ask you to go and feast or do certain businesses in your constituency. That, you will plan it yourself. What I will ask you is to consider that, in any calender of planning, there has to be periods where certain things are appropriate. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I hear that a lot of things have been said about the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF), but also in the Government planning period, this period, we are doing the five-year plan. We want to be there to be sure of what the District Development Planners are putting in our five-year plan is what our constituents actually want. Personally, I want this period to be there to enable me to go round and ensure that the communities are heard. For that reason alone, so that you do not keep regretting and trying to change the plans that are already written, it is a good period to go for recess, in my view. If we do not adjourn, and this Motion has already been brought, an hon. Member who has a 1062 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES May 14, 2008 lot of experience in Parliament tells me that it will take six months before you can bring another Motion of Adjournment. So, people have to be careful that if we just oppose this Motion because we are in a period that we want to oppose-- Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we said that the Budget is coming, and that this is the time to actually go and look at the Budget Estimates that were given. We should go to the Ministry of Planning, National Development and Vision 2030 and check what projects are in the plans and what will be coming in the Budget so that we can be prepared to contribute well to the Budget debate. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is also the period that we should get all the Committees working. I heard an hon. Member say that some of the Committees have not even been constituted. They do not even have chairmen. Once again, I am confessing that I am a first timer in Parliament and I am told that the period when Parliament is in recess is when the Committees are most active. That is the time when Committees do a lot of work. So, that argument, again, does not arise. Therefore, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to support."
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