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    "id": 341207,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/341207/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ms. Mbarire",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Tourism",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 78,
        "legal_name": "Cecily Mutitu Mbarire",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Bill and, of course, raise the concerns that many of my colleagues raised earlier on. I think it will be a big mistake to completely ignore the role of a Member of Parliament in terms of ensuring that they are really part and parcel of running the Committee and even determining through a democratic process how this Committee is formed. Members of Parliament are politicians. It will be wrong to let a Cabinet Secretary from Nairobi come to the constituency to determine who should be in that committee. Woe unto you if as a Member of Parliament you end up with your opponent in that committee. That will be the end of the good work that you would have done in the CDF. Therefore, I propose that there be a role that the Member of Parliament plays in terms of ensuring that we get the right people in the committee and, maybe, we could go through some democratic process of identifying them. But more importantly, the patron role that the Member of Parliament has been playing should continue to be so that we have a way of ensuring that we know what goes on. This is because at the end of the day, the fact that it is called “CDF” means that it is happening in your constituency and you are the leader of that constituency. You must have a role to play in determining what happens. With those few remarks, I support the Bill."
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