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    "id": 1017962,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kinangop, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Zachary Thuku",
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        "legal_name": "Zachary Kwenya Thuku",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker for this opportunity to support the Report by the Special Funds Committee on the Audited Report on the NG-CDF Accounts of the said constituencies in Kiambu County. At the outset, I join my colleagues in the chorus that the NG-CDF is a miracle in the village because this is the only Fund that is transforming lives in our individual constituencies. It is changing the lives of people who had no hope by giving them hope. However, on the same note you realise that the NG-CDF is given to constituencies equally. I believe that equality is not equity. This is because some constituencies are big, populous and vast. Giving an example of my own constituency, the size is about 934.7 square kilometres compared to some constituencies. I happen to sit on the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations. One of my colleagues said his constituency is 8 square kilometres. I thought my constituency is almost 100 times bigger than that constituency and yet we get the same allocation of NG-CDF. I believe this is the height of inequality and inequity that we need to look into. Going forward, we need to develop a formula that is going to be acceptable where we use population and maybe land mass just to ensure that we do not disadvantage some constituencies. You will find that one constituency has about 10 schools and another has 200 schools and yet we are getting the same amount of funds. It is interesting to note that some colleagues here are procuring school buses for their schools because that is their priority and yet some of us are still fighting with mud classrooms, iron sheet classrooms and timber classrooms. This is something we need to address. The NG-CDF is for constructing schools and security. We need to look at these parameters when we develop a formula that will be effective and give us equity across the board. Hon. Speaker, I have also realised from the Report that the Chairman mentioned something in regard to cheques. We need to have a system where monies are dispensed via Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) as opposed to doing cheques. We had challenges where some school managements did not bank cheques issued to them or the cheques had errors. Such errors can be corrected in real time if we develop standard software for use by all constituencies so that we disburse money via EFT."
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