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    "id": 886764,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/886764/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13217,
        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
        "slug": "cherarkey-k-samson"
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I heard Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri talk about County Integrated Development Plan (CIDP). It is very sad because the issue of CIDP has always been a problem across all counties. It is better we cast this in law. Regarding the CIDPs, the county governments went around the entire 47 counties, listened, synthesized, analyzed and up came with a report. They went into the county assemblies. Every citizen in all specific wards had their unique challenges or development needs. Interestingly, the CDIP reports are gathering dust in most of the county governments simply because they are disregarded. So, I hope when this Bill becomes law, it will assist, in accordance with Section 53 of the County Governments Act, in using village councils, I hope they will now take public participation seriously. This law has said before that the people will be given the opportunity to identify specific development projects based on their needs. How county governments do this? The issue of public participation has now been turned into a photo session, tea or soda taking session, where people are being called and told: “We have agreed on this”, but because the people are given soda, a loaf of bread or some Kshs200, they are not given the opportunity to ventilate on serious issues. Since there is a case of CIDP, I hope the County Wards Equalization Bill will be taken seriously because it says that we will need to identify projects through the village councils. I think they have quoted in the spirit of Article 174(10) of the Constitution and many others, they will be able to handle that."
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