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    "id": 1193459,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mukurweini, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kaguchia John",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I rise to support the legislative proposal. The proposal on anchoring the NG-CDF in the Constitution will be of much benefit to us as a country. This should be our preoccupation as the Kenya Kwanza Government. We should concentrate on Bills that will be beneficial to the common mwananchi . The current legislative proposal is one that will help our people improve their lives, as others have done before. I was chair of an NG-CDF Committee for a long time. During that time, I got to know that many people in this country depended on funding from this kitty. Many of our children are educated through the NG-CDF bursaries. If this Fund is withdrawn, I know for sure that there is no other way through which we will be able to get to the grassroots, which have so far been reached by the NG-CDF kitty. I do not imagine that county governments will be able to handle those responsibilities because it is not in mandate. I am not sure if the National Government Administration (NGA) on the ground is able, in any way, to bring together needy children in the villages, as has been done by the NG-CDF in the past. I know for sure that the NG-CDF kitty has helped many children, especially those admitted to national schools and extra county schools. The NG-CDF has also sustained the Day Secondary Schools over time. Any Member, who is in their right frame of mind, must and will find this NG-CDF kitty very important to be entrenched into law. As we speak, the NG-CDF kitty has a component that deals with the environment; 2.5 per cent. This amount of money that goes to the environment through the NG-CDF kitty has increased the forest cover and fruit trees in our villages, schools and public institutions. This means that once we entrench this Fund into the Constitution, we are going to improve our capacity to increase our forest cover. We are all aware that the COP27 Conference is ongoing in Egypt. It is majorly focusing on the issue of improving our environment by increasing our forest cover, planting trees and reducing emissions across the globe. The NG-CDF also focuses on the sport component that is important to us. We know most of our young people depend on the leagues that are organised through the NG-CDF kitty. By entrenching the NG-CDF kitty into the Constitution, we are going to take care of these young people who require attention and support from their Members of Parliament and the Government. This will ensure that they participate in sporting activities such as athletics and football. We all know that athletics is now a source of livelihood for a number of our citizens and they have triumphed internationally. I think we should be looking at increasing and expanding the mandate of the NG-CDF kitty. When I served as the Chairperson of the NG- CDF Committee before devolution, the Fund was focusing on a broad spectrum of mandate. The NG-CDF has now been reduced to a few social intervention areas such as security and education. I dare say that the NG-CDF needs to address the issue of small irrigation schemes in the villages. We have people who want to do high drums, small dams and pipes to help them pump water into their farms. The NG-CDF should help in that. I did not see any overlapping roles between the NG-CDF and the county government funds especially when it comes to the 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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