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    "id": 1190998,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Mohamed",
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    "content": "As a House, we should not be doing an exercise in futility. You can see very well that there is a very serious conspiracy against the NG-CDF, especially by the Executive and now the Judiciary. This Fund has transformed people’s lives in this country. I was in my constituency over the weekend where children do not have school fees. Schools are sending them back home. Where do you want them to go? The Government is not giving them money to go to school. There are no bursaries. The counties through which we are being told these funds should be channelled are not giving bursaries to the children. Their only source of school fees was the NG-CDF. In the list of NG-CDF committees tabled by the Chairman of the Select Committee on the NG-CDF, Hon. Sirma, there is no single Member of Parliament. You did not hear that Hon. Junet Mohamed is a member of the Suna East Constituency Development Fund Committee. I expected him to say that. He was reading the names of ordinary Kenyans, ordinary people, who are residents of those constituencies. They have come together and elected members of those committees so that they can administer the funds that come to them from the national Government for the benefit of the societies living in those constituencies. I am really worried. The next step is to gazette these names. Parliament will send the names for gazettement. In a day or two, the gazette notice will come out. These committees are expected to work to administer the NG-CDF. If there is no money, what is the point of gazetting them? What are they going to do? They do not even have money to hold a first meeting or buy water so that they can hold meetings. If this is not frustrating the work of the committees or the benefits to the people of this country, how else can you describe it? I am told that there is a ruling by the Supreme Court that declared the NG-CDF to be illegal or unconstitutional. We are currently discussing the 2022/2023 Financial Year. We can discuss those illegalities and how to rectify them constitutionally in the next financial year because we are the law-making body in this country. No other organ can make laws or do anything about it in this country. Why are the funds that have accrued, the balances that remained, or the money for this financial year, not being disbursed to the constituencies whose committees have been gazetted? Hon. Pukose is one of the most effective Members of Parliament in this House. I am sure his committee was gazetted a long time ago. Why can money not go to Endebess Constituency as we continue to debate and approve the remaining NG-CDF constituency committees? 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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