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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ainabkoi, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Samwel Chepkonga",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to second the Motion that has been moved by Hon. Sirma, the Chairperson of the Committee on National Government-Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF). As you know, this is a very important tool in terms of development. In fact, it has been recognised by the United Nations that development at the communal level is the engine that moves development in a country. In fact, it is encouraging countries to devolve national resources to the constituencies and counties. This is one of them from the national Government. There is a misnomer that these are funds that are meant for counties. They are not intended for counties. These are purely for national Government to develop infrastructural facilities in educational institutions. I get very surprised when I hear people thinking that it is money that Members of Parliament walk around in the constituencies dishing them out to whoever they like or their brokers. That is a complete misnomer. The money handed to our brokers is from our own salaries. We spend our salaries on our brokers. We do not spend NG- CDF on people that we may like. This is a community development process. It is driven by public participation. The members of public participate in identifying the projects and I am one of the stakeholders who are asked to identify what projects to be funded in my constituency. We hear people talking about NG-CDF of 2015 having been declared unconstitutional. We want to warn the mandarins in Treasury that they need to get their legal interpretation of the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court just mentioned the NG-CDF 2015 orbiter. The 2015 NG-CDF was not part of the Act that was being contested upon at the Supreme Court. I do not see why anyone at the Treasury can imagine even for one minute that the 2015 NG-CDF has been declared unconstitutional. I would like to inform you that we, as lawyers in this House - and we number about 30 - will be appearing in the courts on the 1st and 2nd to defend the rights of Kenyans because Article 95 of the Constitution obligates every Member of Parliament to resolve any matter that is of concern to the people of Kenya. This is one matter that is of concern to the public. We will not allow this thing to go down. If the Judiciary are saying that we are implementing things that the Executive are supposed to be implementing, we should start with the Judiciary. They should abandon the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for informationpurposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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