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    "id": 603473,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/603473/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": "The Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) has issues. The Chair of the CDF Committee is here. We also have the secretariat. They always ask us to give them proposals. After giving them proposals, it is said that we will get Kshs100 million. The information has been put in black and white and published by the print media. In the following day, the people know that their constituencies got some money. They do not know that Hon. Lessonet will sit on that money for nine months. People in our constituencies do not know them - they know us. The CDF Committee does not give us any information. We already have plans of putting up a school with so many classrooms and dormitories. We have plans of constructing roads, but where is the money? We have no idea as to when we will get the money. Information should be accurate and timely so that we do not cheat. Government programs should go on well. Despite all that, we should be careful when we are passing the information. Information should be checked to the extent that we are careful not to abuse peoples’ private lives. For example, in the social media we have Facebook which is going overboard. People do things which are un-African. This Bill should have a clause to counter spreading of rumours and abuse of people. We should provide for heavy fines and penalties. We should provide for penalties so that rumour mongers do not take advantage of this Bill. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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