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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I want to start by thanking you for giving me the opportunity to support this Motion. From the outset, as a Member of this Committee, I am happy that our Committee, together with the Committee on Delegated Legislation, has done a good job with regard to proposing these amendments to the proposed Regulation. I know that there is a lot of interest in this matter, and I do not wish to go over issues that have been canvassed by my colleagues; I want to take up what hon. Wamalwa stated. While it is important that we shorten the time for the notice of the election of the CDFC members, those of us in the constituencies know that we have had a lot of problems in this area, because the law says that you nominate five people from each ward, out of which you select eight. As we go forward as the Members of the National Assembly Select Committee on the CDF, we must look at what we do with those who remain because the moment the five are selected and their names are forwarded to the constituency headquarters, inevitably, a sense of entitlement ensues. I am fully in agreement with incorporating a technical person in the Inspection and Acceptance Committee. The CDF (Amendment) Act came into force in early 2013 and we sat in this House late into the night. Initially, there was a proposal that we impose some education requirements for those who were to sit in the CDFC. We did not quite come out specifically about it; even having done that, one omission that is clear from the Act is that the professional background for the members of the committee is not stated in the Act; perhaps, it is not even necessary considering the role that the CDF is intended to play. It is important that we expand our mandate at the constituency level, so that we incorporate technical persons in the Inspection and Acceptance Committee. Some of the projects that we do, for example in the water and roads sectors and even in building classrooms, are fairly technical and it is not possible that the CDFC alone can have sufficient capacity to do the inspection and acceptance without support from outside. The proposed amendment to Regulation 22 is very good. As has been said very clearly by my Chairman, hon. Moses Lessonet, rogue members of the CDFC have held committees to ransom while being driven by nothing other than an ego trip. A lot of them say, of course, which is true, that they have been elected, but their interpretation of that election has only served to frustrate the affairs of the CDFC in the constituencies. This 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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