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    "id": 240761,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. ole Metito",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 199,
        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I also want to add my July 26, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 2363 voice in support of this Motion. I agree with other hon. Members who have spoken that, actually, this Motion should have been passed yesterday in order to give permission to the Chairman of the CDF to bring this Bill to improve on some of the provisions in the Act. I am saying this because if this Motion had been passed sometime back, one of the improvements we would have seen, as other hon. Members have said, is the increase of the minimum percentage that is going to the constituencies. Secondly, there are some provisions in the Act which need to be improved, for example, the issue of the holders of Authority to Incur Expenditure (AIE). We need that to be constituency-based because some of the constituencies are very far from the district headquarters. Even those constituencies which have the district treasury, we only have one person; the District Development Officer (DDO), who is the AIE holder. We need to improve on that provision to find out somebody else who can be entrusted with that job at the constituency. Finally, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, one of the provisions we would like to see included is how we can make the projects we are building not to be white elephant projects for example, the dispensaries and other health centres. If we could increase the percentage of CDF from 2.5 per cent to 7.5 per cent or 10 per cent, we could actually be in a position to employ health personnel in order to run those facilities. I beg to support."
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