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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Maanzo",
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kitonga Maanzo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The reason for saying this is because the doctors’ strike could be mitigated through emergency funding while we make the necessary laws. We have realised the gap is in laws, some of which are pending before this House and some of which once passed, will go a long way to stop this sort of situation. There is famine and I really want to thank God because the weather forecast is saying that we will have a lot of rain in a week’s time. Therefore, we should prepare. That is good news that this drought situation is going to be over in the country. Again, this Emergency Fund should have come to play right now; to sink boreholes and make water available to Kenyans who have no sufficient water. We have enough water in the country. It is only badly managed at the county and national levels. If we manage all our water resources, we will have water for everybody. A drought situation will never be an emergency. Therefore, while we balance the national allocation and the county allocation, I will really like to say that the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) has been very useful to Kenyans. In fact, the only development Kenyans can see today is from the NG-CDF. Hardly will you see any other developments or a completed development that NG- CDF has not been involved in. In future, we need to think of how NG-CDF can be made better. We had challenges from the courts. Some court decisions were made, they are being followed but the NG-CDF is very phenomenal. Its method of working reaches the common man very easily and addresses matters of the country very easily. In fact, I will be proposing that the constituency be made a unit of devolution the way it has been put in the Constitution. A lot of assistance to Kenyans happens at the constituency level. While we look at improving the counties in future through these allocations, we really must deal with corruption which is the biggest problem at the national level and the county level. Unless we strengthen the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), the country will lose the war on corruption. We have to improve the secretariat through law. I remember some laws were proposed in this House by Hon. Kajwang’ but they were rejected. They would have gone a long way in solving corruption. Had Hon. Kajwang’s’ proposal gone through when we were dealing with the EACC, corruption would have been tackled 90 per cent by today. The moment you have a secretariat which Kenyans have no faith in and which Kenyans believe is compromised, you have lost the war on corruption. We have to look at that law again and have a secretariat which has renewable terms of three years. By six years, a Kenyan will have served well. In Parliament, it is one term; one is lucky to have it renewed. The President’s term is a maximum of two terms; one is lucky to have a second one. The same thing should happen to the institution fighting corruption and many other institutions so that they are competitive. If you are to fight corruption in this country sufficiently, this division of Revenue Bill will become relevant. We are going to pass it and most of this money is going to sink into 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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