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    "id": 1193414,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kangema, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kihungi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I support the amendment to the Constitution. I congratulate Hon. Mule and Hon. Gichimu, who came up with the idea of amending the Constitution. Every Kenyan understands how the NG-CDF is utilised and how it has been helpful to Kenyans. I remember that when I was in school, most school activities and infrastructure development projects were funded by our parents. Parents who lacked funds would work at construction sites to keep their children in school. That is no more. The responsibility of parents now is to pay school fees. The Fund is now also used to pay school fees, especially tuition fees, for students in day schools. A child in a day school can be sponsored 100 per cent by the NG- CDF because the school fees is affordable. The intention and motive of civil societies that have been going to court to challenge the Fund is not to assist Kenyans. They do it for recognition. They hope to be talked to so that they drop the cases. I congratulate the Members who thought that the best thing we should do is to entrench the Fund in the Constitution so that the challenge of managing civil societies is put to rest. The principle of separation of powers is very clear the NG-CDF Act, 2015. Today the Leader of the Majority Party tabled a list of constituencies whose members of the NG-CDF committees have been forwarded to the Board. The advertisement for those positions were done by the Deputy County Commissioners (DCCs), who are the representatives of the Executive at the constituency level. We know that the court case was on the CDF Act, 2013. The best thing to do is to entrench the Fund in the Constitution so that we put the matter to rest. As per the NG-CDF Act, 2015, the Board is extremely independent. Members of Parliament are just patrons. Being representatives of the people, we raise issues that they require us to address. I call upon Members to support the proposed amendment to entrench the Fund in the Constitution so that we assist the people. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker."
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