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    "id": 1183299,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1183299/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sirisia, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Koyi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2792,
        "legal_name": "John Waluke Koyi",
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    "content": "CDF they would not afford to go to high schools or universities. Now, many of them have gone to universities courtesy of the NG-CDF. As a country, every time we have problems, we blame ourselves as Members of Parliament because we are the law makers. I have been in this House for three terms and the NG-CDF problems occur every term. They have removed the NG-CDF yet we are the law makers. This is now the time - and let it be the last time - for us as a House to make sure that we amend the laws. Let us change and amend the Constitution to allow the NG-CDF money to be used. This is taxpayers’ money. Those poor women and men in the rural areas are the taxpayers. Their children are supposed to learn. They are supposed to go to school and this being taxpayers’ money, this money is not ours. We are there just to manage it. Even the National Treasury manages this money for these poor people, these poor women, but it has taken long. Many children are back home. They have not gone to school due to lack of school fees because the NG-CDF is not there and bursaries are not there. The committee that has been constituted today needs to hurry up. I know they are going to take long going round the whole country doing public participation but when they come back, the National Treasury should release billions of shillings because they have been saving money for the NG-CDF and, therefore, there should be no complaint from them saying that courts stopped the NG-CDF bursary or CDF. This is their time. From the time we went for elections up to date, they have got enough money and enough time to make sure that they release it with immediate effect. Many countries have come to our country to learn how we use NG-CDF because they hear Kenya has a fund called CDF. Before we went for elections, I saw Members of Parliament from Uganda here to learn about how NG-CDF is utilized. We are proud because maybe in Africa, it is Kenya which started this fund and other countries are learning from us and so, we need to continue. It should not be that they come to learn from us here and then we remove ours. We cannot blame the courts or the Judiciary because these cases were taken to them. The NGOs did this, and I think God will punish them because these poor people at home are crying. They are not going to school. These poor families and poor mothers at home are crying that their children are at home. I saw those people. They were still even arguing that they are also going to remove the NG-CDF. They are shameless but because of time, let me donate my time to another colleague to contribute. I support."
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