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    "id": 1190994,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilgoris, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Sunkuli",
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    "content": "I also listened to the worrying undertones from the Whip of the Minority Party, Hon. Junet, as to whether this step will end here or in provision of the funds. It will be very important to listen to what the Leader of the Majority Party will tell us tomorrow. The people on the ground have done their part. They have selected members of the Committees. I realised that when these positions were advertised, the bar was rather high during this particular time. Sometime in the past, the members of the Constituency Development Fund Committees were not required to have such rigorous requirements like the ones I saw in the ones we will approve today. Therefore, we hope that the Government of the day will make sure that these Committees that have been selected very well will actually have a job to do. I kept on hearing new terminologies today like “the former regime”. For me, the Government has always been the same. The people who have been running the Government have been doing so for 10 years. We hope that they will continue doing it in good faith. Kenyans are waiting for the NG-CDF. I left Parliament about 20 years ago. I am grateful to the people of Kilgoris for bringing me back. When I was here previously, the NG-CDF did not exist. We performed even though there was no NG-CDF. The amount of work that we were able to do compared to what my successors later did was quite small. The NG-CDF has really made a difference. Even though it currently has many enemies, the Fund has actually helped Kenyans. I am always very surprised to see those who went to court to oppose the NG-CDF saying that it is a noble fund. Nobody is arguing against its nobility. Therefore, if it is a noble and useful The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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