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    "id": 454491,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chepkong’a",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1154,
        "legal_name": "Samuel Kiprono Chepkonga",
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    "content": "is very clear. The Members of Parliament are elected to represent the people. Secondly, they are supposed to deliberate on and resolve issues affecting the people as they are representatives of the people. So, when a board is created at the county level, it will be part of the mandate of the Member of Parliament of the constituency to deliberate and resolve the issues of their constituents. So, there is nothing that is unconstitutional about this Bill. At the end of the day, it is the members of the county assembly who will be charged with the responsibility of approving budgets and all the plans. These boards will just merely recommend and harmonize development plans. It is, as it were, coached in terms of the defunct District Development Committees, which were a consultative forum for the Members of Parliament to sit with the administration and come up with implementable plans within the constituencies and districts. It is recommended to the central Government for purposes of being funded. So, these boards will just be sitting for purposes of considering plans that will have come from the Ward Development Boards, chaired by the MCA, plans that have been approved and recommended by the Sub-County Development Board chaired by the Member of Parliament. Those plans will be harmonized at the apex, where the chair will be the Senator. With those few remarks, I would like to call upon the nominated Member of Parliament, Hon. Bishop Mutua to second the Bill."
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