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    "id": 1193409,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kibwezi West, MCCP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mwengi Mutuse",
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    "content": "to enable Senators to fuel their cars as they move around the counties to see whether projects that county governments claim to be complete are actually complete. This is a Fund for the Senator to facilitate research on oversight of the devolved Funds. Even as our colleagues in the Senate say that they require more Funds, I wish to refer them back to when the NG-CDF was started. In 2003, after the late President Mwai Kibaki took over power, under the leadership of the then CDF Committee, which included the late Hon. Richard Kalembe Ndile – may God rest his soul in eternal piece – each constituency got its first annual disbursement of Ksh6 million. We, therefore, need to start from somewhere. We also need to distinguish the fact that the money that the Senators are going to be given is not going to fund development. They are not going to be asked to build classrooms, police lines or give bursaries to needy students. It is rather money that will facilitate the office of the Senator to undertake oversight activities. In my view, we are beginning at a good point. Members of the public need to be advised properly, so that we do not politicise the matter so much and end up losing such a progressive amendment. As I conclude, I wish to congratulate the Member for Matungulu and the Member for Gichugu, Hon. Gichimu, for this well thought out and timely amendment. I would also like to pay tribute to the initiators of the NG-CDF. We have Hon. (Eng.) Karue and the third and late President of the Republic of Kenya, Hon. Mwai Kibaki. This is because if it had not started then, we would not be where we are today. I would, therefore, support the entrenchment of the NG-CDF in the Constitution when the time comes so that the issue of its legality does not haunt us anymore. In my understanding, a constitutional provision cannot be declared unconstitutional. I, therefore, beg to support. I also urge Members to avail themselves in the House at the critical hour to meet the threshold for voting. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker."
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