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    "id": 471044,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/471044/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mulu",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Benson Makali Mulu",
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    "content": "At one point, the Chair will remind you that you were elected and gazetted. I was actually elected and gazetted. So, we are equal in terms of controlling this fund. You will find that you end up having conflict between the Chair and the Member of Parliament who is the patron. Any time you go to the rural Kenya, we might like it or not; we might legislate it or not, but the issue is that the CDF is equal to the Member of Parliament and the Member of Parliament is equal to the CDF. When things work well, they say that the Member of Parliament is doing very well but when things go bad, they say that the Member of Parliament is doing very badly. In a scenario where you have a chair who says that you are equal because you were elected and gazetted the same way, you end up not implementing the projects as expected. The Members of Parliament end up looking very bad. I did not like the idea that removing these committee members should be made as easy as possible so that if we see any sign of somebody sabotaging the implementation of projects then we should go ahead, discuss with the fund manager and that committee member is removed from the committee, we get a replacement and we move on in terms of implementation."
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