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    "id": 1183084,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1183084/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung'wah",
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    "content": "(viii) Hon. Yusuf Hassan (To replace Hon. David Mwalika Mboni); (ix) Hon. Kakai Bisau, MP; (x) Hon. Robert Gichimu Githinji, MP (Co-opted); and, (xi) Hon. Stephen Mule, MP (Co-opted). Hon. Temporary Speaker, as you rose to put the Question on the earlier Motion, the Whip of the Minority Party asked how long we shall lament about NG-CDF. The answer lies in this Ad Hoc Committee. As Hon. Chepkonga said when he seconded the Motion, indeed, the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) is under eminent threat of extinction. It is unfortunate that those who sponsor the court cases…. In the 11th and 12th Parliaments, we had run-in with our sister House in the Senate. To be honest, they cannot run away from being part of the co-sponsors of the court cases that pervade on issues to do with NG-CDF. I am glad because we have started off very well in this 13th Parliament. It is laudable that the House Business Committee (HBC) considered an Ad Hoc Committee, recognising that this matter also touches on counties. There is also the Senate Oversight Fund that is envisaged to be incorporated into our Constitution just like NG-CDF. We have a Parliamentary Joint AdHoc Committee now. I want to take this opportunity to speak to our brothers and sisters in the Senate and the other busybodies out there who fight NG-CDF imagining that they are fighting with Members of Parliament. As we all stated here during the general debate on NG-CDF, Members were very emphatic that it has absolutely no benefit to the Member of Parliament. This is a Fund that benefits millions of Kenyans. Millions of young children today do not know whether they will report to school in January because not a single constituency in this country has funds to award bursaries. All of us are afraid of going to the constituencies. I am afraid of stepping into my constituency office in Kikuyu. About 120 to 130 people patronise my constituency office every Monday. Out of those people, 105 of them have been patronising my constituency office looking for bursaries in the last one month. I do not have the funds."
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