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    "id": 1054384,
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    "speaker_name": "South Mugirango, KNC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Silvanus Onyiego",
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        "legal_name": "Silvanus Osoro Onyiego",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for allowing me to also ventilate on this matter. Hon. Speaker, the issue of NG-CDF is very emotive to us. We are within the pandemic period from March 2020 up to this period. We all remember the lockdown in the entire country that also locked us within our compounds. When there was resumption of studies in schools, our students went back to schools with expectations that their Government would help them. We all must agree that within the period that the pandemic was very high, the children’s parents were not working. The parents of children who were studying in universities, colleges and secondary schools were not working because of the lockdown. Here we are with full resumption of operations except the curfew with limited access to bursaries that are very fundamental to the studies of our children. Hon. Speaker, if we all show the messages that we receive from our students or constituents, you will understand why this House is so emotive today for lack of a better word with some unruly actions. Some constituents are blaming us because of lack of knowledge. Out of their lack of knowledge, they believe that we have sat on their bursaries and the NG-CDF, yet it had not been disbursed. As Hon. Alice Wahome has said, this is happening because some constituencies have received funds and are already operating. It is important for the Budget and Appropriations Committee to note that it should not allow itself to bow to pressure. They had sittings with the CS to get something small and then he comes to this House to convince us to allow the Executive Bills to pass while we are suffering."
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