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    "id": 1190999,
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    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Mohamed",
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    "content": "As far as I am concerned, the only money that comes from the national Government that I am sure is beneficial to Kenyans is the NG-CDF. You can say anything you want. People like abusing Members of Parliament and tarnishing their names. You will never see a Member of Parliament sitting on an NG-CDF committee discussing the NG-CDF. However, you will see many people in all constituencies who have benefitted from the NG-CDF, either in terms of bursaries, construction of schools, classrooms, dining halls, and roads leading to schools. There are all kinds of things. It is my humble request that monies be disbursed so that these committees can start working as soon as yesterday. People are really suffering. Nowadays when you watch the news, you see counties lamenting that they have not received funding from the national Government. This Fund has the lowest administrative costs in this country. Over 90 per cent of monies disbursed through this Fund reach the people of Kenya directly. It touches the lives of people of this country. I am saying this because I do not want Parliament to be seen to be engaging in an exercise that will not bear fruit. Once we pass this Motion and these committees are gazetted, money must follow. Monies must go down to the constituencies so that these committees can function, children can go back to school, schools can get…. Currently, there is a big problem in this country, that is, the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC). Children are moving from junior to senior schools. We were educated under the 8-4-4 Sytem of Education, so I do not know what grades these are. There are no classrooms. Those children are supposed to attend classes in their primary schools. They are not going to those boarding secondary schools where all of us went. They are supposed to graduate from Junior to Senior School in their own primary schools. They do not have classrooms to go to. The only fund that could provide classrooms for them is the NG-CDF. If you do not disburse the NG-CDF, where will you get classrooms from? Do you want these senior school children to be taught under trees in the whole Republic? People will realise that the work that the NG-CDF is doing is much more than the amount of money that is disbursed by the Government. In conclusion, I urge the House to stand firm. We will be going on recess in two weeks. We will interact with our constituents for almost two-and-a-half months. Those people require services, attention, and help for their children to go back to school. I, therefore, urge this House that within this month, constituencies whose committees have been gazetted must be funded without any further delay. With those few remarks I support."
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