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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Cheptumo",
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        "legal_name": "William Cheptumo Kipkiror",
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    "content": "that, that Fund should be made available easily to our young people. Later, when we go into the Committee of the whole House, I will bring some amendments. For now, I will just say three issues. That Fund has two components. There is the component on the youth and that one on women. The Kenyan women are equally an important sector of our society. I want to agree with hon. Midiwo and other Members that, as we form the constituency committees, we should be guided by the fact that we need to move together. My committee had a challenge in the usage of the word “consultations”. This country is aware of what consultations between two persons can lead to sometimes. The Regulations say that the appointment of the constituency committee can be done through consultations between the County Women Representative and the Member of Parliament. Our worry is that, that particular provision, in some counties, might result in a situation where we may not at all agree on the membership of the constituency management committee. The Temporary Deputy Speaker, instead of using the words “in consultation” let us share these nominations. I will be later showing this House our proposals as a Committee so that our women County Representatives are able to appoint directly without consultations with Members of Parliament. If we leaders cannot agree, how do we expect our constituents to agree on issues that affect them? We need to move together so that we can build a cohesive and united society. The other issue is that we want to reduce the connection between that Fund and the CDF in many respects. One of the ways we are going to propose--- When you look at the Regulations, it is said that the CDF manager should be the Secretary of the Constituency Uwezo Fund Committee. That is a provision that we feel should not be accepted. That is because in some constituencies, the managers may not be as popular as it is in other constituencies. There are areas where the CDF has succeeded – that is okay – and there are areas where it has not succeeded. This can easily impact negatively on the"
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