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    "id": 845412,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ruaraka, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. T. J. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Members should now be attentive because we have begun the problems that we were talking about in our Second Reading. Those of us who are still consulting can do so but we are talking about issues that will haunt us. I have anxiously checked the amendments by the Leader of the Majority Party. We had discussed some of them during the Second Reading. The amendments proposed by the Leader of the Majority Party in terms of the National Housing Development Fund are very weighty. They are in Clauses 7, 65 and 68. I want us to understand this. We are creating a fund that will collect Kshs1 billion per month. This Fund is not attached to anything. There is nothing in the Act or in the Clauses which tells us that the money which will be collected will be used for upgrading houses in Mathare, Kibera and in Korogocho. There is a very good idea which is being used by people like my constituents who are unfortunate to be living in the slums. However, we are creating a behemoth like the Youth Enterprise Development Fund (YEDF). What you have here… No, Leader of the Majority Party. We have to be careful on this one. These are our people. There have been a lot of photographs taken from my people. We are being told that we will be given houses. We do not want you to use the name of Mathare people to create a behemoth in haste unless we have a stand-alone legislation in which all these ideas can be brought together and then an authority called the National Development Authority is established where this money is put and we know exactly how the structures of this Authority will be. For example, the first thing the Leader of the Majority Party needs to consider is that there is no legislation that established this Development Fund we are talking about. It is not in Clauses 7, 65 or 68. It has not been established by law. You are creating Kshs1 billion which will go to the National Treasury and there is no legislation that tells the National Treasury to use this Kshs1 billion on anything. I oppose this amendment. I kindly appeal to Members that you are creating something here that will haunt this country more than the YEDF haunted this country. This amendment is coming, the Leader of the Majority Party. It is not coming from the Committee. In fact, I wonder why it was not subject to Article 114 of the Constitution. It is a Money Bill. Please, look at this thing. Some of us who come from those constituencies like Kibra and Mathare should have been consulted. We know the problems that we have there. You do not come from Garissa and then tell us how to handle Mathare or Kibra. We are here. We oppose!"
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