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    "id": 531623,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "were to equate it with what the Homa Bay County Government is getting, it is almost six times what I am getting in my constituency and yet, you cannot see evidence of what the Homa Bay County Government is doing that is comparable with the amount of work that we are doing as Members of Parliament. Therefore, I will only take this Government seriously when we see it striking the whip on corrupt governors. Many of us have fought for many years for this devolved system of governance, and there are people who want to waste it. Look at the example that hon. Wamalwa gave - that you find what we are using in CDF as Kshs 600,000, county governments are spending almost five times as much. Finally, I want to put a challenge to the Budget and Appropriations Committee on the issue of public participation which is a constitutional provision. My understanding of the issue of public participation is that it was not only meant to take the views of the members of the public but rather that in communities that are visited, the policy of the Government is to ensure some of the issues that are put before the Budget and Appropriations Committee find their way into the Budget. I would want to know from the Committee what happened to the views that were given to it in Mbita. The Committee promised Mbita people three items which they asking me to date. I am going to arrange, as they have requested, that we bring a Petition before the Budget and Appropriations Committee so that I know whether those funds were diverted to another constituency, or whether the members of the Committee misused those funds for their own means. That is because the Chairman promised through the Budget and Appropriations Committee that those funds were going to Mbita. I beg to support."
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