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    "id": 1193511,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Limuru, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Eng.) John Kiragu",
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    "content": "CDF during the 11th Parliament. I found a constituency that had problems with schools. We did not have enough facilities, particularly for the boy child. A lot has been done to ensure we help the children who cannot afford to go to school. I remember in four and a half years, we used the NG-CDF to build new secondary schools in Gatura, Kamirithu, Muna, Kabuku and Umoja. Hon. Temporary Speaker, as you know in Central Province, we have a big problem of alcoholism and early marriages. For example, when the NG-CDF builds new schools, this allows many young people who would have been lost to study by giving them bursaries to continue with their education. According to me, the NG-CDF is very important. I want to thank Hon. Mule and Hon. Gichumu for helping us to focus on this matter, so that it can be anchored in the Constitution. As I stand here, I have seen young people who would have been lost and failed to pursue higher education benefit from the NG-CDF. Within five years in Limuru, I saw young people acquire higher qualifications at the university using the NG-CDF. Some were lucky to get scholarships to further their studies in very prestigious universities around the world. As I speak, I know John Mukabi, who was an orphan and had no parents to support him, but through the NG-CDF, he went to the University of Manchester and Wainaina went to Yale University. Also Kahinga went to a school in Korea and Sebastian went to study railway engineering in China. The background of these young people was that they would not have made it were it not for the bursaries they got through the NG-CDF. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I support the sentiments by various Members of Parliament on the good side of the NG-CDF. I also support the other proposed funds that will contribute to uplifting the lives of the less fortunate people in our society. As we speak, people at home are wondering why we are referring to the Constitution as the problem causing them not to get the NG-CDF. They believe the Constitution should help and not block them from accessing the NG-CDF. Since we know the NG-CDF Act of 2015 is still active, we do not have answers for our people who are crying desperately at home for help. All I can say is that it is important for the funds to be released so we can sort out the pressing problems our people are facing in the constituencies as we continue to pursue this matter of anchoring these funds in our Constitution. I support."
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