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    "id": 1183206,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) James Nyikal",
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    "content": "The people acknowledge that the NG-CDF is the most accessible fund. A classroom burns or a toilet sinks and, within a week after approaching the NG-CDF Chairman, and if the Project Management Committee has funds, that classroom or toilet is fixed. Which other fund responds to the people like that? The people have realised that the NG-CDF is the most responsive fund. People walk to the Chairpersons of the Committees and the Fund Managers when there are problems of bursaries and security. As our colleague said, we cannot have security without police officers being housed or having offices. Most chiefs are using their houses as offices. We cannot stop something that is helping people because of the law. We must change the law to provide people with what they need. Man is not made for the law; the law is made for man. We must look at the NG-CDF model as the best one. People accept it and it is cost- effective. Why can we not use it as a model for all other funds, whether they are county government funds or national Government funds? Instead of trying to kill the NG-CDF, let us use its model to improve the performance of other funds. Hon. Temporary Speaker, as I conclude, I know this process will take at least one month but the House cannot go on recess without funds being disbursed. To that end, I propose that we have a kamukunji with the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Economic Planning, together with the Attorney-General, as early as possible before we go on recess so that Members can express their concerns and the Cabinet Secretary and the Attorney-General can appreciate them. Sometimes our views determine what happens elsewhere. I, once again, propose that we must have a kamukunji to discuss this matter with those State officers. We support the process. It should go on but we must have a kamukunji. I implore you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, because convening a kamukunji is within the powers of the Speaker. Let that be done before we go on recess. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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