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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, we considered a lot of issues. All the issues that were raised are on page 8 of the Report. I want to highlight some of them. For instance, one of the issues was whether the establishment of the sub-county development and ward boards will create competition with the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF). We saw that there was a bit of a grey area there and that is why we agreed to remove the ward development committees and the sub-county development committees. Two, whether the existing structures as obtains in the County Governments Act and the Inter-Governmental Relations Act should be strengthened or supplemented with new structures. To that one, we said “yes”. That is how we allowed the County Development Board to come in and supplement the existing structures because they were not adequate. There was no forum where the Senator, Governor and the Members of National Assembly and representatives of the wards ever sat together in any county. So, this is unique in that respect. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we also considered whether the composition of the board was appropriate and the issue about the nominated MPs. We said that because the nominated Members do not represent interests of the county - the nominated Members represent national interests. These interests could be the interests of the disabled or they could be the interests of gender, but they are national. We decided that since the board was just to consider county interests, then it will not be appropriate for Members who represent other interests to sit in the CDB. It is on that logic that our sisters; the nominated Senators and MPs from the other gender, were not included in these boards because the county interests are represented by the elected county members. Those other members represent other interests, but we have provided for them. If you look at the Bill---"
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