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"content": "Many Members have said that Members of Parliament are not party to the NG-CDF. We are elected to perform three key roles: oversight, legislate, and represent. We have a hand in the NG-CDF by virtue of representation. The 350,000 people of Kitutu Masaba will not face the fund manager, all of them at once. That is why they have elected me as their leader to listen to and represent them in different forums. I, therefore, play my role to represent them. They have a vision, but the 350,000 of them cannot present that vision. You, therefore, as a Member of Parliament, are the vision carrier for your people. We will, therefore, continue playing our role of representing our people to the Board and the Constituency Development Fund Committees (CDFCs). I sit in the Select Committee on the National Government Constituencies Development Fund, and if there is a Fund that is properly structured, it is this Fund. The money goes to the Board, the Board sends the money to the constituencies' CDFC's main account. From there, the money does not go to the contractor. It goes to the project management committee account, which has a representation of the local community where the project is going to be done. The members of that community are the signatories. This is the Fund that reaches the poor. It is the Fund that speaks the language of the poor. Today, while we talk here, we are not talking as Members of Parliament. We are carrying the voices of the millions of people we represent."
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"content": "We will not allow this country to go to a point where the Member of Parliament of Kitutu Masaba, who is elected on the Opposition side, cannot be able to get classrooms for the children of Kitutu Masaba. We are not going back to where we begged certain institutions for our people to get the very basic. Education is basic. Classrooms are basic. Bursaries are basic. We are not going to allow a point where we have to go back to kneeling and singing loyalty for our people to get what is their right."
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"speaker_title": "Hon. Clive Gisairo",
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"content": "The NG-CDF has brought equity to this country. We should all fight for this Fund. And for the people who are forever taking it to court, and only appear in the villages carrying bottled water once in a blue moon to attend a funeral and cannot even sleep in those villages, you should know that we are the ones who carry those children of the poor. The children who have no pampers, we are the ones who carry them, look them in the eye and see the dreams in their eyes. Those who sit in Nairobi, in the courts and well-ventilated offices, do not tell us what the people go through. We are the ones who know what people go through. We are the ones who know the dreams of the poor child. It is our responsibility as a House to show up today. If you do not show up, we will put you in the bracket of the aloofness represented by the people active in courts. I would like to end there. I support this Bill because with it our children have a future. Thank you."
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"content": " Hon. Agnes Pareyio."
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"speaker_name": "Narok North, JP",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for this opportunity to contribute to the Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill. This Bill will help the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"content": "people we represent by making sure they continue to receive NG-CDF money. This is not money meant for the Member of Parliament. This is money that has made a difference in our constituencies. It is seen as if it is the Member of Parliament uses the money, yet the Fund is run by a management committee with a Fund Manager. Public service officers and the community monitor its use. We receive messages on our phones from students who are unable to sit their examinations, because they know NG-CDF money is meant for them and it can support them in their education. So, I support the Bill. If it were not for this money, most schools in my constituency would now have been closed for lack of toilets. The community knows they can get the money. We must make sure that we have quorum to support this Bill and the make sure this money remains with the people at the constituency level. I also support women on NGAAF. I sympathise with them because the area they serve is very huge, the whole county. I see Woman Representatives donating water tanks, tents and bursaries but the money they get is little. They still make sure the use of the money is felt in their counties. The money is not enough. More money should be added to the Fund. Women in our constituencies and counties feel the effect of this Fund. NG-CDF and NGAAF are meant for the people, not for Members of Parliament. We should come out in large numbers to get the quorum to pass the Bill. Thank you. I support."
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"content": " Very well. Member for Kanduyi, Hon. Makali."
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