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    "id": 1193569,
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    "speaker_name": "Mumias West, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Johnson Naicca",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I wish to congratulate you for that position. You are actually fit to be there. I wish to thank the good people of Mumias West for having re-elected me for the third term. I must say that one of the factors that must have influenced this re-election was the good use of funds. The Fund in question is none other than the NG-CDF. I want to take you back to 2003, and I am privileged to be one of the pioneers of the CDF of 2003 when it came up. I was the chairman of CDF from 2003 to 2007 of Mumias West Constituency under the good leadership of the Member of Parliament then and my mentor, Hon. Wycliffe Osundwa. Then, if you remember, the allocation was even more. A constituency in Turkana, for example, used to get more than Ksh200 million. However, when the split came in, this amount started being reduced somehow. We have stayed here for long. It is now almost 9.00 p.m. There is nothing that has not been mentioned, but we are still going to add our voice and support this particular amendment concerning NG-CDF. It has done immense things in constituencies. Members here receive more than 200 calls every day from students in universities and secondary schools. There are students who are at home now having been chased away from school for lack of school fees. Some of those students are from very poor families while others are orphans. If NG-CDF ceases to exist, I do not think there would be any more education. In my own constituency for example, the District Commissioner’s office was built by the NG-CDF. I have built more than eight police stations and eight police posts using NG- CDF. The Fund is not in competition with the county governments. Instead, they supplement each other. Over 28 markets in Mumias West have security lights. Women and youths can now transact their businesses up to about 10.00 p.m. or 11.00 p.m., which we think is very important. We have drilled many boreholes using NG-CDF. Without it, there would be no water thus poor health conditions in the constituencies. County governments alone cannot get enough funds to do this work because of the way Governments work all over. When they give you, say, a quarter of a billion, you can use that little money for development."
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