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    "id": 1123818,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1123818/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13162,
        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
        "slug": "moses-otieno-kajwang"
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    "content": "In the counties, Members of the National Assembly, Women Representatives and governors issue bursaries. The national Government also issues bursaries. What happens in many cases is that you will find the same person benefiting from all these Funds, because we have got people who have become experts at gaining the system. They know how to make applications and go online. We need to make sure that we synergize if we are doing bursaries in the counties. That way, we will reach a much larger population. I see the National Government Affirmative Action Fund (NGAAF) being used to build markets in my County of Homa Bay, yet ideally, that is an exclusive mandate of the county government. Why should the women representative build a market on my doorstep when the county government is planning to build another market behind my house? We have those kind of duplications that can be sorted out through this. Another issue is school infrastructure. Many county governors are now putting money in primary and secondary school infrastructure. If you ask them, they are complaining because they are not seeing where the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) goes. This has been a case in Kajiado County because I have dealt with it in the County Public Accounts and Investments Committee (CPAIC). This has also been a case in Kakamega County among others. I do not know whether it happens in Narok but governors claim that they do not see what Members of the National Assembly are doing with the funds that have been given to them. What if leaders of a county with eight constituencies say that in a certain financial year, each will get Kshs110 million which adds up to Kshs880 million? The money can only do 50 per cent of schools and the governor should bring in an additional Kshs200"
}