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    "id": 341199,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kioni",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not want to oppose this Bill but I have difficulties supporting it. The only reason we have seen some success as a result of the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) is because the central Government was kept away from it. This Bill has created a department within the Executive. If hon. Members will take time to read it, they will realize that as Members of Parliament they have no role in it anymore. They have just been mentioned casually in it in one section. I know there has been misuse of CDF but that should not be reason enough to do away with this vehicle that has helped this country grow. The fact that we have a Constitution that separates powers, it does not mean that we stop being agents of development that we were elected to be. We are not yet where Kenyans or the developed world would want to tell us; that we are just here to pass laws and we have nothing to do with development. This Bill says that we should come to Nairobi to pass laws and leave development to another agent. What has happened to this Bill is that the Cabinet Secretary has been all the way to the ward. As Mr. Midiwo says, who knows who is in Ndaragwa? If you come and tell the Cabinet Secretary to start appointing people to sit in the Committee, what are you actually saying? Actually, this is passing a law that takes away this development through the back door. I hope this Committee has done something useful that is going to save the Bill. If they have not, then this is a Bill to oppose."
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