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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Ombaka",
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        "legal_name": "Christine Oduor Ombaka",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, hon. Speaker, for this opportunity. First, let me take this opportunity to appreciate the fact that an Affirmative Action Fund has been included in this BPS. It is a Fund that has never been there. The 47 Women Representatives have suffered greatly because they have had nothing to implement on the ground. Now this has come and we feel great. We feel, however, that a lot of improvement can be done. We have been allocated Kshs2.1 billion which, if you calculate very well, means that every constituency that we represent will get at least Kshs7 million. I feel that Kshs7 million is far too little to manage a constituency and that a little increment would have been realistic in this context. That is why this morning I tried my best to influence the Committee to give us an additional Kshs1 billion so that if it is spread across the county every constituency would have Kshs10 million. I thought this could be taken from anywhere. There is so much money that is spread around from which we can get Kshs1 billion. It is not too late because amendments can be made. However, my observation is that we should continue to allocate funds to areas that we feel have not performed very well in the past. There are 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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