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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Baringo County, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jematiah Sergon",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. From the onset, I support the Motion on the Floor on matters the NG-CDF. I want to speak and echo my colleagues who have spoken before me that the Petitioner should have taken time and understood the importance and benefits of the NG-CDF. As I speak, I come from a very humble background. Those days we used to be helped and supported to go to school by organisations like the Christian Children’s Fund (CCF) and the USAID. I was privileged to have schooled in a boarding school at an early stage of my life. Due to that, I got better education. That is why I am here today. What the NG-CDF is trying to do is to bridge the gap that was there. It gives opportunity to children from poor backgrounds. Also, the NG-CDF has complemented a lot of development right from the national level to the county level. As one of us, Hon. Pukose, has said, these are decentralised funds. History has proven right that politicians, as much as they are elected, are good managers. They understand and get in contact with people day in day out. The NG-CDF has proven that it can do much, with good management by Members of Parliament under decentralised funds and regulation of government. It has taken care and caters for many projects and helps many people, especially children going to school, to live like many other Kenyans or Kenyans of better status. I want to add that in recent times I have seen what NG-CDF has done. It has built police stations and capped the opening in society which the national Government could not handle in time. This is because when a Member of Parliament interacts with the people, he/she easily 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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