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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Limo",
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Kirui Limo",
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    "content": "county governments is not helpful. I want to say that the importance of this Bill is that the development board will provide the opportunity for coordination of development. It will also provide opportunity for co-operation between the national Government and the county government. It will also provide an opportunity for prioritization of the projects and issues concerning our people. Where I differ is where legislators, Senators, Members of the National assembly and members of the county assembly will be full members of theboard. Therefore, it can be construed to mean that they will be implementing projects. We need to amend this Bill to allow legislators to be ex-officio members of the boards, so that we will deliberate issues concerning our people. But we will not appear to be making decisions and, therefore, implementing them. If you look at our Constitution under Article 95, it also says that the work of the National Assembly is to oversee. From experience, I know that oversight can be exercised in two ways. It can be “pre” or “post”. What it means is that we can sit in that board and exercise oversight to prevent bad things, instead of waiting to come and attack when it has already happened. So I propose that once we are members of those boards as Members of the National Assembly, the Senate and MCAs, we will play the oversight role by ensuring that we offer preventive measures, rather than waiting at the end. This will help our people. If we look at this Bill soberly and run away from temptations where we are looking at governors, Senators and MCAs as enemies--- We have to look at it objectively and we ask everyone in this country to be sober. We should provide leadership using this Bill. We will lead by example by sitting together. I know many counties have not had an opportunity of talking together because, obviously, there is bad blood between the governors and the rest of leaders in the country. If this Bill is taken positively by everybody, including the governors, it will provide an opportunity for a consultative forum which is anchored in the laws of this country, rather than the way we, sometimes, in most counties have people meeting in hotels and not within the law. This will bring our consultative meetings to be anchored in law and there will be no option for us but to meet."
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