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    "id": 453948,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lati",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jonathan Lelelit Lati",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to oppose this Bill in its current form. I am doing this with a clear understanding that if we reject this Bill as a House, it will have to go to the Mediation Committee. So, I prefer that we do the necessary amendments to water down this Bill because I think this Bill as it stands today is a big fallacy. If you look at the things that this Bill is trying to bring, one of them is the creation of three boards at the county level. Why would somebody want to create a board at the constituency level? The only viable board at the constituency level is that of CDF. So, unless somebody has some malice and is trying to sneak into the CDF through the back door there is no reason to have a sub county board at the sub county level; it is unnecessary. The same argument applies at the ward level. I do not see what project or funds are so decentralized to the ward level that we need a board. However, I can see what is in the mind of the Senate by looking at this Bill. They thought that they were trying to incorporate the Members of the National Assembly to make them do something. I want to say that we do not want to do anything as far as the boards are concerned. If you look at the Board that was supposed to be established at the county level, I can understand that, probably, there is a reason to have a forum for leaders of all counties to meet at the county level and discuss development projects, but I do not understand why somebody would create a board and immediately assign himself the role of a chairman. I think it is illegal. Even for legitimacy reasons and for you to feel that you are the chairman, why do you not leave that open for elections so that you have a board which will elect the chairman? That is the way to have the legitimacy. I think there is somebody here trying to get a job that he does not have. We cannot buy into those simple things. We have been elected by our people and we have a job to do. We will keep doing that job. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the other part that does not look good in this Bill is that MCAs are supposed to be part of this forum. If you look today at the establishment of the county assemblies, in our Constitution, the county assemblies are actually parliaments of those counties. They have committees and they debate in parliament. At the end of the day, they will still sit in committees and then have the final say on all the projects that go through their Budget and Appropriations Committees within the county level. It, therefore, makes no sense to have an MCA sitting on the board. I think there must have been a problem with the people who framed this Bill. I always sympathize with the Kenyan Senate. This is because there is something that was wrong with the establishment of the Senate. If you look at the first senates that were there starting from The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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