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    "speaker_name": "Wajir West, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Yussuf Farah",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Speaker, in northern Kenyan we are experiencing severe drought. You can imagine when the students have been sent home from school and their parents have nothing to offer them, not even a cup of tea, but if the NG-CDF was available today and their school fees was paid, they could have stayed in school and got something to eat at the end of the day. It is that bad. In my constituency, we have two serious challenges, namely, security, which is the core mandate of the NG-CDF, and education. In regards to security, all the police stations in the constituency were constructed through the NG-CDF. None of them were nationally sponsored. We experience insecurity at the border of Isiolo North where there is a daily occurrence of cattle rustling. The security personnel who are there do not have a vehicle to operate. It was through the NG-CDF that they could hire vehicles whenever there was a problem for those officers to do their work. You can imagine the problems the people would face if there was no the NG-CDF. I want to appeal to everybody who cares in this country to visualise and see the problems the people of Wajir West are facing today rather than creating a perception that the NG-CDF is petty cash for the Members. I would urge them to think beyond the Members in this House and consider the orphaned students who have been sent home from school and have nothing to eat because of the severe drought. We also need to think about the doctors who went to universities to learn their skills though the help of the NG-CDF. In Wajir West, we did not have a single doctor before the NG-CDF, but courtesy of the fund, we have thousands of nurses, engineers and many careers that were needed in that particular area. I would also like to appeal to the Hon. Members to consider increasing the NG-CDF budget from 2.5 per cent to above 5 per cent. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I also want to touch on the issue of the Senate Oversight Fund. The Senate needs to do an oversight role in the counties. The county money is being misappropriated by governors everywhere in this country. They need very strong Senators who have the time, capacity, mandate and resources to oversee the governors in their counties. I thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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