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    "content": "particularly dealing with children living with HIV/AIDS. Some people then come from overseas, bring funds and they legislate something different. Finally, the local Kenyans lose that institution. When I look at the preliminaries, I am truly grateful for the Mover of this Bill. I wish she listens because in the clause 2(b), she has brought in a very important aspect of grassroots organizations. We have had a lot of problems because of those wazee wa mitaa or the local wazees who actually resolve some disputes at the local level. What I am missing is a schedule indicating what the Mover says is called other traditional groups. One of them is those wazees wa mitaa and the community policing groups, so that we put them in the law. In this case, when they do dispute resolution at the local level or deal with criminals at the local level, they are accepted by the Government and are given some resources by the Government. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, when you turn to the body that is going to oversee this organization, it is, once again, skewed towards the Government. The body will be appointed by the Minister in charge and then brought to Parliament for vetting. There is no room for stakeholders electing their own members. All the people there are Government-based as is contained in Clause 28 of this Bill. Why not allow stakeholders to also elect their own people? They can be subjected to the National Assembly, but unfortunately, what we have seen in almost all these Bills, including the one we had this morning is that we are basing them on the Government. My biggest concern is what we saw this morning. When we were passing the Pyrethrum Bill, the Minister for Agriculture moved in for a few seconds and opposed it which we had debated for more than one hour-and-a-half. The absence of the two Ministers who are responsible for this gives us a lot of concern because they, probably, might come in spite of the fact that they have sat in the Committee with the Mover, opposed it. Therefore, I find this Bill very important and that it will bring more sense into the NGO world and bring cohesion, so that there is no infighting both from the local institutions and the international institutions. We shall also see a situation where by our young people are not employed by the international body for a short while to give credence for them to be registered here and then they are taken away and the institution ends with foreigners. I agree that this Bill, as most Members have said, is a good Bill, but it requires cleaning up, so that at the end of it all, we do not see the drama we normally see when chairmen are changing positions. They fight to an extent that one chairlady had to remain within the house for several months because other people wanted to take it by force when she had been elected to that position. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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