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    "id": 1183266,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Emurua Dikirr, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Johana Kipyegon",
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    "content": "courts never properly understood the major intention of the activist who appeared before them. Sometimes you wonder why Kenyans question matters which go to the main “artery” of poor populations and leave matters that are completely destroying the country. There has been a lot of corruption in previous years that has “eaten” into the core of this country, but no one has gone to court about it. There have been so many people in this country who have stolen billions and trillions of shillings and they are walking on the streets scot-free. No one is looking to arrest them and make them pay back the money that they have “eaten” from this country. There are people in this country who have made it their responsibility to waste whatever is in any Government Ministry. No one is going to court about it. Why are they questioning a small amount of money that has been allocated to the poorest of the poor in society? There were so many schools in this country that had mud walls. There were so many students in our country, especially in the countryside, who studied in dilapidated classrooms. I am one of those people. When I was young, I studied in a classroom where every other week, I had not less than 10 jiggers in my fingers. That is now history because of the introduction of the NG-CDF. I do not know why some people have never understood the reason why the NG-CDF was introduced in the country. There were days in this country when parents used to sell land to educate their children. Many people lost their land and livestock because they had to sell them to educate their children. There were days when children used to defer their university education because they could not manage to pay fees. There were days when people died on their way to hospitals because there were no roads. People died by the roadsides because there were no roads and maybe it was during a very rainy season. People would be carried in gunias to hospitals. There were days when we used to have children named Kiptoo and Kibor because they were born by the roadsides. There were no hospitals or good roads. That is history. It no longer happens. I do not understand why we are fighting over something which assists the people of this country. Why our country and many other African countries are backward is because people concentrate on things that do not matter. The reason our country and many African countries are backward is because people concentrate on matters that are not important to the development of society. Instead of being vigilant on billions of money which are being spent carelessly, people are vigilant on money that is helping the poor in this country. Instead of arresting big corrupt individuals, we are fighting over small allocations meant for the poor. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I do not want to say much. I want to say it is the responsibility of this House so that we will not be whining day and night. Articles 94, 95 and 96 give this House the power to legislate and to make any law in this country. It is our responsibility to ensure that we amend the Constitution, and entrench the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG- CDF) in the Constitution so that the coming generations benefit from the amendment of this Constitution. The law was created to help man not the other way round. Man was not created to help laws. It was created to help man and women. That is why we are in this House. We are here to amend the law that is meant to help us. If there are some sections in that particular Constitution which are not helpful to humanity, it is our responsibility to amend it. I urge Members to stop whining and put efforts to the amendment of this particular Constitution. I urge the ad hoc committee which has been picked to do their responsibilities even in 30 days but ensure they go to every village and ask the people what they want with this allocation. If they want it removed, they should bring it here and we will remove it. If they want it entrenched in the Constitution, we will do so. Whoever wants to go court, can go to any court in the country but we must entrench the NG-CDF in the Constitution just like we entrenched devolution in the Constitution. 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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