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    "content": "There are even cases where harambee cards are printed in your absence without your consent. Somebody will then stand in a gathering and read names; you are not aware but in the eyes of the public, you are just trying to be insensitive to the needs of your constituent. That is why you are not attending those harambees but the reality is that you have not been told. So it is unfair. It is better the way the Bill regulates that you have to give the list of those who are going to be participating in that harambee and they should be aware so that you do not put people in those situations where they incur unnecessary negative publicity because of misuse of some otherwise worthy cause like this one. The Bill regulates the process in the sense that you have to say why you are collecting the funds in the first place. It even says what amount you expect to collect, because if it is a hospital bill, then you know what amount you are collecting. If it is a development project, then it has an estimated cost. The Bill even says that the fundraisers should be registered people; that is good because you will have to have somebody to follow. If there was a fundraising somewhere, then you will know who was in charge, who will be held accountable if the money is misused and who should be giving the records back to the committee. However, there is one issue which I find might be an impediment to this process because most of the time a harambee might even be an emergency where somebody is in hospital and the doctor will tell you that you have to raise a certain amount of money before a person is operated on. So, you have to run around and get money from the people yet the Bill says that you have to give that notice 30 days before. So, in some cases, it is not practical and I think we have to change it; in the case of an emergency like health issues, then we will have to adjust. Even in the case of the county, the Board is based at the county headquarters. Some counties are so wide like in my county, there are centres which are 500 kilometers from the county headquarters. The person who is trying to raise funds maybe because he has medical bills to settle or he has children to take to school might be that far from the center. So, it is better that this Board delegates, through the county government system, some authority to maybe even the ward administrators or the sub-county administrators so that people can easily access that permit at those levels instead of incurring expenses which they do not have in the first place. That is why they are looking for assistance to come all the way 500 kilometers to get a permit from the County Fundraising Board. With those few amendments, if they will be done, then I find this Bill a very noble way of regularizing a noble idea which is being misused and will make those who deserve lose that chance of getting assistance because somebody has misused or abused that process. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to support and hope that maybe the amendments which shall be made by the other Members will be taken into account during the Committee of the Whole so that we can have a Bill which covers all of our concerns. Thank you."
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