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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Masinga, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joshua Mwalyo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me a chance to speak on the NG-CDF. Having been a Member of the NG-CDF Committee for five years in the last Parliament, and also being Member of the same Committee in the13th Parliament, I am conversant with the issues surrounding the NG-CDF. This is a great moment during which we are debating the NG-CDF issue. The ad hoc Committee being constituted by this House should work on entrenching the NG-CDF in the Constitution. Last year, we had a related exercise of enhancing the allocation of the NG-CDF to 5 per cent from 2.5 per cent. The NG-CDF Committee was able to visit all the 47 counties in 30 days. Therefore, this ad hoc Committee can do the same and collect the views of the public within that period of time so that we entrench this Fund in the Constitution and move on. Hon. Temporary Speaker, it is important for judges to know that there are students from poor families and orphans whose education is solely sponsored by the NG-CDF. These children cannot go back to school unless their school fees is catered for through bursaries from the Office of Fund Managers in the respective constituencies. The situation has been difficult for this category of students in the Third Term of the current academic year because we have not been able to disburse cheques from the NG-CDF for them to go back to school. Majority of the students are at home as we speak. In some parts of the country, there is famine and parents are torn between paying school fees and feeding their children. Many parents have opted for 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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