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    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you for giving me this opportunity. I want to thank the Committee Members for giving a good Report. As other hon. Members have said, we must take the issues of budget seriously in this country. I want to note that we need to be true to the Constitution. If you look at what the Constitution provides, we did not pass this Constitution as a mere cosmetic thing. We did not pass this Constitution, so that we keep it in the shelves. We are at a different stage and time in this country. We must get off the era of impunity. Many people think that impunity only has to do with issues that are criminal in nature. Impunity has to do with having a law and ignoring what the provisions of that law says. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Constitution is very clear. I want to thank Dr. Nuh. I was cheering him till my shoes almost came off. The reason I was cheering him was--- If you look critically at the issues that affect this country, one of them is marginalization. If you look at the Waki Report and the Kriegler Report, you will see that the underlying issues of violence in this country are issues of marginalization. If you go to countries that are developed, you will see that people receive resources; people are not even interested in elections because their stomachs are full. When people are hungry, then they are interested in who the leader is. They are interested in who the President is. Unless we address the issue of inequality in this country, we will be in trouble. That is why we are not going to allow, especially me as the Vice-Chairperson of the Constitution Implementation Oversight Committee (CIOC), people to flout the Constitution with impunity. If the Constitution provides that there must be an Equalization Fund, there shall be an Equalization Fund. We are going to use all approaches. If we are not going to get it through Parliament, we are going to get it through the courts. We are going to get it through every means possible. This is because the Constitution is clear and we cannot start on implementation of the Constitution on the wrong path. That was why I was recently disappointed when a young aspiring Presidential candidate met people from Nyanza and said that the reason Nyanza is not developed is because of the politics they have been supporting. That cannot be a reason for under- development. If you want people to support you, you must be a good leader."
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