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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mathare, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Anthony Oluoch",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Tom Oluoch",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the third point that I need to make is that it is very bad precedent for us to set to allow the National Treasury, under the pretext that a PFM Act has been passed, to take over a fund already created for the benefit of another ministry and another section of population of this country. Once the Government tests these waters and discovers that it can take sports funds from the Sports Ministry, what would stop them from taking the NG-CDF from our constituencies under the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act to the National Treasury? What would stop them from taking funds from the National Government Affirmative Action Fund (NGAAF) and other funds established elsewhere to the PFM? Is this proper legislative practice? Is it sound legislative practice in terms of how our constitutional architecture has been set up? In our constitutional setup, we set out to devolve power and resources from the centre. There should be less Government involvement in everything. That is the best Government practice worldwide. A system where the National Treasury disburses money, gives you its policy on how they will collect money to fund the budget and then come back and say that they want to manage those very funds under the pretext of PFM is wrong. We need to stop it because it will create a very bad precedent for this country. Fourthly, in the Sports Act, having created the Sports Fund and saying that there would be money that we get from betting and lotteries going to develop sports, there was already a legitimate and rightful expectation from the young people of this country that they could have a Fund that is now singularly dedicated to the development of the youth. To now take this to the National Treasury and say that only a fraction of it will go to sports and another fraction to universal healthcare will amount to a clawback. In terms of good legislation-making, you cannot make law by clawing back advantages and things that have already accrued to people either in an Act or under the Constitution. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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