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    "id": 884481,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/884481/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kwanza, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ferdinand Wanyonyi",
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        "id": 2065,
        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "First of all, it is good that we are going to have the board in place after eight years of lapse. Secondly, we hope that the delay in disbursement of funds, with the board in place, will be something of the past. Today, there is a backlog in disbursement and the fear is that this money might be disbursed at once and maybe misused. Therefore, it is important that with the board in place, this will be a thing of the past. When this board is constituted, we will have an appropriate way of having fund managers. We have had cases where fund managers cover about two or three constituencies and this becomes very difficult to do some work out there. Lastly but not least, the process of appointment by the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury was based on gender and regional balance, and I quote: “The Cabinet Secretary is further required to take into consideration gender equality and regional disparity.” That is what we have talked about. As far as I am concerned, these appointees are very educated and efficient. Their papers are alright. The only problem that we saw is the fact that either the Cabinet Secretary was misinformed or ill-advised and picked three people from the Rift Valley. That is where the problem was. Coast and western regions are not represented. I know we are not talking about tribes but we are talking about regional disparity, which is an issue here. I think that is why my colleagues have complained. I am not talking about ethnicity. They are talking about regional disparity, which I think we have to take into consideration if we talk about unity in this country."
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