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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Cheptumo",
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        "legal_name": "William Cheptumo Kipkiror",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, we have a duty to make matters very clear to the Members of this House. As we proceed to recess from next week, assuming that we will take our recess then, the issue will be that of bursaries and so on. I want to state the true position; it is important for us to say the truth to this House. The Act gives my Committee powers to do pre- publication approval. That means my Committee shall approve the regulations before publication. Hon. Kaluma, my learned colleague – of course junior – sat with us in the meeting twice. We established a technical sub-committee to which, again, Hon. Kaluma was a Member. We went through all the issues and came up with the final document. As you are aware, the function of the National Government Constituencies Development Fund Committee is different from the mandate of my Committee. The mandate of my Committee is to ensure that the regulations are done in accordance with the written law – the parent Act, the Constitution and any other relevant written law – which has been done. Once we do that, the matter goes back to the National Government Constituencies Development Fund Committee. The matter has since gone to them. It is for them to forward that document to the Board, which will eventually forward it to the Attorney-General for publication. Hon. Speaker, I want to make it clear to this House that the mistake, from the word go was occasioned by this House because we did not provide for the Committee that was in place earlier on to proceed before the new Committee was put in place. That was our mistake. I remember that when Hon. Lessonet proposed such a provision, the membership of this House declined. That is why we now have a problem. The truth of the matter is that the Members of the 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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