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    "id": 1085508,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "North Horr, FAP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Chachu Ganya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 18,
        "legal_name": "Francis Chachu Ganya",
        "slug": "francis-ganya"
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    "content": "These regulations enable us to come up with a hybrid of some sort so that the counties and county governments are taken care of, the civil society and all other stakeholders in development are brought on board so we can move as per the court ruling. I personally participated in drafting these regulations with some people from the National Treasury. I am the one who came up with the idea that the NG-CDF Chairpersons and Fund Managers at the county level be part of the technical team. At the constituency level our NG-CDF Secretary will also be part of the technical team. At the ward level our NG-CDF committee members who are gazetted on the Floor of this House will be members. We are doing this because we are the ones who will be identifying the projects. The money will be disbursed from here. In terms of project identification, if MPs are strategic enough and work with their structures on the ground, which are part of these regulations, they will surely identify projects in their constituencies. I strongly urge them to do so and take lead because the County Executive Committee (CEC) at the county level will not take the lead. In the first policy, we were able to get funds and constructed major facilities in our constituencies. Marsabit County got between Kshs80 and 90 million, and we shared it equally among the four constituencies. From this we were able to build hospitals, major roads and other infrastructure. Due to the court case the facilities which were incomplete we were unable to use them. They are just lying idle because the contractors have not been paid and as a result our people are not accessing these services. They will be unlocked once paid and the facilities will be released to the county governments or other government authorities to make use of them. So, it is very important that we pass these regulations. There are contractors who invested so much in these projects and have not been paid to date. As a result, some of them have closed shop and gone out of business because they have not been paid due to this court case which called the first regulations null and void. I am also convinced there is poverty in many parts of this country, and not just among the marginalised communities. There is the urban poor here in Nairobi and when you go to Kibera you see a lot of poverty. I do not oppose the extension from 14 to 34 counties and from 100 constituencies to 134 constituencies. I think this is fair because all Kenyans should be taken care of. It is really my hope that since the county governments, unlike the first policy whereby the national Government through the National Treasury and Members of Parliament had a major role, are being brought on board and the CECM 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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