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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kaluma",
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": "You will, of course, frustrate our parties’ development if we approach it this way. Remember that Article 112 gives us two options. We may reject this Bill. If we reject it, automatically, each House will appoint their number of Members to be in the Mediation Committee. Amongst the role of the Mediation Committee is then to come up with a version of the Bill which is acceptable to both Houses. That may be one way we may need to think about in terms of how to ensure the amendment is acceptable. The other way, of course, is to make the amendment here. If we make the amendment here, it will go to the Senate for their reconsideration. Remember when they do that, we will not be there. They may as well reject those amendments. What it means is that we may end up with a situation where later on we are just still at the Mediation Committee. Personally, I would agree with the spirit of the Bill. However, I ask our membership here to look at the provisions of Articles 112 and 113. My view is that what would work best is to sustain the thing by rejecting it and then appoint an equal number from each House to the Mediation Committee and a Bill whose version is acceptable to both Houses is placed before us and both Houses pass it. The contrary view would be very tricky. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there are thoughts about the CDF. You know the Member of Parliament does not chair the CDF. I think I need to clarify this to the nation. The Member of Parliament does not appoint unilaterally the people who serve in the CDF. The CDF membership is now elected by the people of Kenya sitting in the various constituencies and wards. These gentlemen and women are then gazetted by the Government as duly elected representatives of the people. As I conclude, I want to tell the nation that the Member of Parliament does not have Authority to Incur Expenditure (AIE) over CDF. Indeed, the national Government representative appointed by the CDF Board at the national level, the Fund Manager, is the one with the AIE. Of course, the CDF Committee does everything. That Fund Manager is the accountant and treasurer. You all know that we do not appoint those people. We want to emphasize to the country that as a leaders elected by the people to exercise the power of representation, we are only in the CDF Committee as patrons to represent the people’s interests where there are lapses. Other than that, of course, the Committee proceeds on its own. It is on account of that, that I would like to request all Members that we do not debate this thing in a manner that would confuse the thinking of people about the existence of these other funds. As you know, they are allowed under Article 206. I request that at the end of it we consider rejection. That rejection of the Bill, I am confirming to you, does not kill it instead it gives us the facility of a Mediation Committee and then we develop a version of the Bill that is acceptable to both Houses and, of course, we pass it at that level."
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