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    "id": 1183240,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Rangwe, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Lilian Gogo",
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    "content": "CDF.” This is a fund that is known to Kenyans. The poor of the poorest in Kenya are aware that the only thing they can lay their hands on in terms of the only development they see on the ground – what makes classrooms and pays bursaries for their children – is the NG-CDF, and this fund has nothing to do with Members of Parliament. Hon. Temporary Speaker, the process has started with the constitution of this Committee. We are urging the Office of the Speaker that we also need a kamukunji of Members of Parliament with the people who are opposed to the NG-CDF. We need a kamukunji because children of poor parents in this country must continue to access the equalizing factor that is education. As a poor daughter of a poor maid, I could not have stepped into this House if it were not for the grace of God that saw me access education. If it were not for education, I would not be speaking in clear English. Why do we want to deny the children of the next generation education? That notwithstanding, I just hear it is not confirmed and therefore I do not know how true it is – that, the Government intends to increase school fees in January. Between now and January, from where will parents get money to cater for an increase in school fees? From one quarter, you hear that the Government is no longer going to fund public universities; and from another quarter, you hear that the NG-CDF is unconstitutional. We, Members of the National Assembly, as the people with delegated sovereign authority of the great people of Kenya, are going to work on the NG-CDF until it is entrenched in the supreme law of our land so that we do not have vagabonds moving around the corridors of the Judiciary to deny children of poor Kenyans, including children of single mothers, and orphans the school fees bursaries they have been getting from this fund. It is only through the NG-CDF that an orphan can get full bursary amounting to about Kshs53,000 per year so that he can access education. This is a matter that touches on every legislator in this House. Hon. Temporary Speaker, the Motion also proposes to entrench other funds. These funds are not going to individuals’ pockets. These funds are going to the service of needy people at the lowest level of our society. We are building a beautiful police station at Ngegu Beach. We have constructed a beautiful police station at Ndiru in Kagan Ward. The NG-CDF in Rangwe Constituency is funding the construction of a sub-county headquarters that will have a Huduma Centre, which will take services very close to the people. Why do people who are against the NG-CDF want to take us back to the Harambee way of building school infrastructure? Is it so that we can go down on our knees begging those in the Executive to come to our constituencies to preside over Harambee to raise funds for construction of school buildings? The NG-CDF provides development resources to all the 290 constituencies such that as development happens in Rangwe, it also happens in Wajir as well as in all the Coastal Region constituencies. The NG-CDF is a fund that is not discriminative. I would like to remind ourselves for the purpose of the record that the more we suppress the poor in this country, the more we will be cursed as a nation. A time will come when we will go back to God and cry for punishing His poor. God is a God of the poor. If we continue sitting in the comfort of our beautiful seats in here, or in the court rooms, and we do not go to our rural homes to see what the NG-CDF has done, we will not understand. I am telling the judges who have made rulings in the name of the Judiciary to go home and see what the NG-CDF has done for the people of this country. When the Hon. Members of the Judiciary return to their chambers to make rulings after touring the country, they will be able to make rulings that are compassionate to our poor. Right now, everybody across the country is following this debate on radio or television. Kenyans want to know the fate of the NG-CDF. I started my contribution by asking Members of this House to, kindly, tell me the home addresses of the judges who have been on the NG- CDF case. I know that from your social networks you know where the particular Hon. Judges or Magistrates live. Kindly, give me the pins of their residences. I am going to take to them 14 buses we have bought over a period of five years using NG-CDF. I will fill them with students 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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