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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Prof.) Nyikal",
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        "legal_name": "James Nyikal",
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    "content": "The other area that I think is important is agriculture put together with the area of industrialization. I believe this country will not be industrialized until industrialization is based on the agro-industry. That is where our people are, and the only way to move forward is to improve agriculture, food production and export and to look at value addition and base our industrial development on that. That is a great thing and I think we need to put more money there. Let me end by talking about audit. Audit is required. Everybody, wherever they are, is talking about the Constitution. They are jumping up and saying: “We want to amend the Constitution! Review the Constitution.” I know we have faced problems. We have faced problems in health. We have faced problems in Roads – KURA and KERRA had arguments that were here. We have faced problems with the wage bill which many people think is due to the Constitution. We have had problems with the governors. There is low absorption and what is being used, we are not convinced that it is being used properly. The question we have not asked ourselves is this: Is it just the Constitution or the process of implementation? Personally, I believe we have a good Constitution. The 20 per cent may not be a big problem now. Where our problem is, is the implementation of the Constitution. We did not think it out properly and even when we put up the walls for the transition, the transition would not have followed it. I believe this audit will bring out what the problems are. Are they the problems of transition or the problems of the Constitution itself? Let me just give an example. If you live and are practising in a town and your family is there; your children are going to school and you decide you are moving to another town, because you know the prospects there are better, you must plan how you move. One day, you cannot take your wife or wives, remove your children from school and move everybody into that town yet, you neither have an office nor a house. That is exactly what we did when we said we were implementing the Constitution at once. I believe the decision by the Summit, for instance--- Devolution was a monumental error and the only way we can really find out how to go forward, is to go through this audit With that hon. Speaker, I support."
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