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    "content": "projects funded. However, you go and misrepresent the views of the people. As a Member of County Assembly (MCA), you cannot reward your own cronies against what the people of that ward or county want. Therefore, I would recommend that we put stringent measures in this law that will help people’s views be taken into account. Madam Temporary Speaker, let us develop guidelines that will protect misrepresentation of facts. I have seen such a provision there. This will ensure public participation is worth what it is so that we do not have people making their own proposals – whether an MCA or Member of Parliament (MP) or a Senator, changing what the people want. The essence of public participation is for the people to have their say, transparency and their democratic right be respected. If you change what the people have agreed – you as a MCA, Senator, governor or deputy Governor or as an MP – then you have misrepresented the people and their wishes. You should be answerable for it. Can you find a way to caution this public participation right that is given by the Constitution? In this law, let us caution it so that it is not abused. Let us caution it so that when you go and change the wish of the people, then there should be recourse for them to an extent that they can say no. To an extent that they can say: “This is what we said and not what you have represented.” Personally, I have seen that happening in my particular ward. There were complaints and we are yet to know whether that is actually true or not. The efforts of those people who come and sit a whole day to give their views on a budget or on the laws we are making, the development of the county or on the CIDP should not be in vain and should not be circumvented by an elected or nominated leader. For us to have put this in the Constitution, as a right, it means the people are supreme. The people who are sovereign should speak and their wishes respected. This is an important Bill that we should all support. We should follow up to see how it is implemented so that the wishes of people are not in vain and be abused as we watch. Madam Temporary Speaker, I submit. I beg to support."
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