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    "id": 345286,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. C. Kilonzo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 46,
        "legal_name": "Charles Mutavi Kilonzo",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, let me say, from the outset, that the Provincial Administration, although it is going to be restructured as required under the new Constitution, is and was a very popular system within the general public. Were it not so, we would not be having the likes of hon. Musila, hon. Y. Haji, hon. Kamama and many others who have gone through the Provincial Administration, served this country in this a great way, joined politics and got elected. This system of administration which under the new Constitution is under the National Government Coordination Bill, its officers will be referred to as the National Government Administrative Officers. This Bill is very crucial. I want to give an example of how governors will behave in a number of cases. In the last Parliament, I was a Member of the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) Committee. We had very many cases of governance through the political arm or the Member of Parliament. A good example was somewhere in the Rift Valley - no names - where the area Member of Parliament felt that a particular community should not benefit from the CDF. For that reason, no money, at all, was allocated to areas where there were members of the Maasai Community. Imagine if that county had such a governor and that governor---"
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