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    "id": 884389,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/884389/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui Central, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Makali Mulu",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1955,
        "legal_name": "Benson Makali Mulu",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I must say that the appointment of these board members is long overdue. We all know that it has taken four years to have this board in place. I think we are going to be very unfair to the process, if we do not say that some people have slept on their job, more so, the Cabinet Secretaries who have been in charge of this NG-CDF docket. How do you expect an important Fund like this to be managed in four years without a board? To me, this is serious oversight and we must call a spade a spade. The CSs have failed us as the NG-CDF in terms of board representation. Any time we mention about regional representation, gender and all that, I get concerned when we take these things very lightly. It cannot be by chance that these things found themselves in the Constitution. To be fair to the process, I think it is worth noting that when you look at these names, there is a big challenge with regional representation. Actually, if we are to analyse and subject this list in terms of regional representation, it will actually fail the test. Look at the whole of coast, western, Nairobi and eastern regions. You cannot tell us that those regions do not have competent people who can sit in the NG-CDF Board. There is no nuclear science with the NG-CDF Board. We must call a spade a spade. When the appointing authorities are doing it, we want them to bear in mind that Kenya is one country, but it has regions and tribes so that we do not appear like we are only focussing on a few who seem to be the “right tribes”. We are all talking about national unity and we cannot build national unity when some of us feel excluded out of the mainstream. I want to state categorically that even as we talk about the totality of commissions, we cannot say that we will look at the totality of commissions when this list has four members from Rift Valley. One commission has four people from Rift Valley when we are talking about Kenya. We are joking. Even as we support the Motion because we know the urgency of the matter, let us also be realistic that these things must be done correctly."
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