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    "id": 1186349,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I have a different view. For starters, I understand that the Leader of the Majority Party is the messenger. We have no business shooting the messenger here. The message is weighty and the Members of this House need to understand that what is under siege is a fund that is very dear to our constituents. Beyond this being a House that reads from the book of Lamentations, this House will now have to start being more innovative in terms of how we look at this NG-CDF matter. The CDF as constituted originally and the NG-CDF Act of 2015 are under serious peril. It is not even the National Treasury that has problems with it. This being the House that makes laws, we will have to think very quickly. First, the broken telephone going through the Leader of the Majority Party is going to get us into more jeopardy. Having fully constituted Committees, we might want to start thinking of how we will invite these people to the House to answer directly to us. What we are getting from the Leader of the Majority Party has gone through a lot of processing. It came from the courts to the National Treasury and now to the Attorney-General. These people should appear in person before this Committee and we should be able to summon them urgently. Secondly, we might need to think of how to reconfigure the NG-CDF substantially. We might even need to think of how to properly domicile it under the purview of Parliament. Even if it means having to administer the NG-CDF through the Parliamentary Service Commission, then so be it. Parliament cannot keep on being at the mercy of the National Treasury or the Attorney-General. All we are doing now is speaking from the book of Lamentations yet we are the House that makes laws. We can make laws that can change how the NG-CDF is administered."
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