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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, from the Statement, it appears that that was done. Consultations were carried out, but I am not very sure as to what kind of consultations and so forth. I can find that out from further clarifications. I would like to tell Sen. Billow that even Kshs10,000 will make a big difference to a group of women who have grocery shops. So, Kshs50,000 will still make a substantial impact in their lives. There was a good question from Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale on whether there will be an Act of Parliament to regulate the management of this Fund. There are regulations that have been tabled in the National Assembly to give a legal framework to this. From my perspective, this House should have been involved in one way or the other in this Fund, either as Senators themselves or even as the Senate. Hopefully, when those regulations are tabled, it will come through the normal procedure which the Speaker of this House will determine whether they relate to counties or not, so that we can have an input as a House. There was a question as why Senators, Governors or Members of the County assemblies are not involved in the management of this fund. I am still baffled why they were not involved. I will make a follow up to ask the Cabinet Secretary why we were not involved because we are all representing certain interests. Even the Senator who requested for the Statement is representing youth interests in this House. With regard to affiliation to politicians, I think the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) model is affiliated to politicians. The Governor and Senators are both politicians. So, in response to Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo’s question, I think the question should be why all leaders are not involved. Time will come for us to debate Sen. Sang’s Bill. If the framework that brings the leadership in the counties was there, we would have had the opportunity to also have an input in such a framework. Sen. Sang sought to know the linkage between the Youth Enterprise Fund and the Women Enterprise Fund. Again, this was not in the initial Statement sought and so we will seek to be given that answer. It appears from the Statement that this Fund, unlike the"
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