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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lessonet",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Lessonet",
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    "content": "Thank you Hon. Speaker for this opportunity to support the Motion on the Approval of Nominees to the Various Constituencies. As I do that, I just want to make reference to a ruling by the Court of Appeal a week or so in terms of the Constituencies Development Fund Act. Probably you have not informed Members that I used to be the Chair, let them be aware now. In that ruling, the CDF Act 2013/ 2014 was declared unconstitutional by the High Court. We made an appeal to the Court of Appeal of the CDF Act 2013 and went ahead to do a new Act, now the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) Act 2015. The ruling by the court of Appeal is in respect of the CDF Act 2013. We now got favourable ruling except for two clauses that the court found unconstitutional, one being 24(3)(c ) which is in respect of how to appoint the eight committee members. In the former act, it was the Member of Parliament who was doing it. The court found out that to be unconstitutional. The other one is Clause 24(3)(f) where the MP was an ex officio Member of that Committee. Other than those two clauses together with 37(1)(a) concerning county projects committee, the entire Act is now alive. We now have two Acts of Parliament to do with CDF. Soon, once this House constitutes the relevant committee, it will be the first assignment to tell us which Act we are using. Is it the NG-CDF Act 2015 or the CDF Act 2013 which the Court of Appeal has given us? So basically, that is the import of that ruling and I want to assure Members that the various articles which were in the media should be ignored because they wrote so much for so little which went on in the Court of Appeal. Hon. Speaker, other that I support this process of appointing Constituency Committee Members. With those remarks, I thank you."
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