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    "id": 1175227,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitutu Chache North, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jimmy Angwenyi",
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        "legal_name": "Jimmy Nuru Ondieki Angwenyi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me a chance to conclude our Session here today. I thank you for a good job done. I am proud of myself to have voted for you to be our Speaker. You have performed beyond standards. I thank every Member of this House because they have worked with us, as leaders in the House leadership, very well. It does not matter what party each of us belongs to. We have all worked together, which is a great thing. I thank the people of Kitutu Chache North and Kitutu Chache in general. Before it was divided into two, it used to be Kitutu Chache, a constituency which has been subdivided into two constituencies. I thank the people of Kitutu Chache who sent me to this Parliament. There are a lot of benefits that Kenyans have received by the people of Kitutu Chache sending me to this Parliament. One, I participated effectively in bringing the law on NG-CDF. Before I came here and before Eng. Karue came here, we did not have the NG-CDF in this country. We sacrificed our resources to hire a lawyer, Dr. Gicheru, from London to come and do a Bill for us. No lawyer in Kenya wanted to do that Bill which was against the Moi Government. He did a good law for us. I thank God and our late President, Kibaki, because he was then the Leader of Opposition. He gave a very nice comment while he was contributing on that Bill. He said and I quote: “Why did Kenyans not elect these two young men? Kenya would have developed if they had come here earlier and introduced this Bill.” Of course, the late President Moi could not assent to that Bill. Fortunately, at the end of that term, Kibaki was elected the President of Kenya. We took the Bill to him and reminded him that and I quote: “You commended us for bringing that Bill. Can you now take it up and assent to it?” He called the late Mwiraria who was his Minister of Finance. Mwiraria said, “When we took over power, the coffers of the National Treasury were empty. So, we cannot take up the Bill.” But Kibaki convinced him. He said: “Let these two young men reduce the minimum amount from five per cent to two-and-a-half per cent and we take over their Bill.” That is what happened. It is unfortunate, since that time, 2003 up to now, we have not raised that minimum from two- and-a-half per cent to five which was in the original Bill. That is where I blame ourselves as MPs. You can see what has happened with the county governments’ share—they say a minimum of 15 per cent but it is 31 per cent this year. We have never increased the amount allocated to NG-CDF beyond 2.5 per cent of the national Budget. I blame ourselves as Members of this Parliament. Hon. Speaker, since you call me the grandfather of the House, you have to add me time. This House has been denied house allowance and yet this same House approved a lady…"
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