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    "id": 1191015,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kwanza, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ferdinand Wanyonyi",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. From the outset, I want to take this opportunity to approve the list that has been brought to this House. It is quite in order. I do not think I have anything else to add because I do not know those members. It is only the Members of Parliament who have submitted the lists who know them. Therefore, I think as most Members have said, the NG-CDF is not meant for Members of Parliament. As we all know, the NG-CDF is for the public. Everybody is crying. They are begging that the NG-CDF should be released because students are at home. In fact, most students will not do well in the ongoing examinations because most of them are just sitting at home. Those setting the examinations are here in Nairobi and are not aware of the happenings in the villages. The children are not concentrating. I want to take this opportunity to ask the Ministry of Education to instruct principals of various schools not to send children home. They are all aware of the current situation. When I went home, more than 30 parents came to my residence to ask me what they should do with their children. They want me to pay their school fees. Some of them have fee balances while others have completed school, but are unable to get their certificates. We want to take this opportunity to state that as it is, we are having a tussle with the busybodies out there. Most of the fellows that are talking about the NG-CDF do not know anything about it. Therefore, we also want to take this opportunity to tell the principals not to send students home. Most people including myself, have what we call commitments. School principals should treat commitments as a way of parents saying that they will pay school fees for their children. The busybodies out there are even suggesting that the NG-CDF should be devolved to the counties. That will be a disaster for this country. Why do you devolve the NG-CDF to counties and yet most of them have not performed well? It will be a disaster in this country. Therefore, I want to suggest here that since the Leader of the Majority Party has committed himself, we should give him some time, so that, hopefully, by tomorrow, we can get some good news from him. If that does not happen, then we should go ahead and do what we are doing. Members have suggested that we should have a go-slow so as to force the Government to direct National Treasury to release the money. 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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