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    "id": 1193639,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ndia, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. George Kariuki",
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    "content": "of the NG-CDF. The fund has its own structures. Our role as Members of Parliament is oversight. As legislators, we have a role to help our people better their lives through exercising good governance. Wwe all engage in public policy in one way or the other. There is this one topic called “good governance” which captures eight characteristics of good governance. One of the eight characteristic is effectiveness and efficiency. The NG-CDF is one fund of the many Government funds that exercises efficiency and effectiveness. Unlike county funds that go to the county governments, if you allow me to compare, the level of effectiveness in the NG-CDF is way above that of county governments. That is why with our little money, about Ksh100 million, which includes recurrent expenditure, we do a lot. I think development accounts for about 70 per cent. With that percentage, which is about Ksh80 million, we do a lot. That is effectiveness because there is very little wastage when it comes to the NG-CDF. We do our proposals to the board where it approves them and then we go for implementation. In implementation, we have project management committees. These management committees get us to another characteristic of good governance, which is participation. Our people down there in mashinani participate in the well-being of our people at the grassroots. Without participation, we cannot know the exact needs of our people and how to address them. The board has addressed many gaps for the period that we have had the NG- CDF and that is why participation has not been a big problem. There is another characteristic of good governance called consensus. During the sharing and distribution of these resources, we conduct public participation. As a Member of Parliament, you do not just think of buying a bus, for example, and go ahead to do so. You first have to involve the mwanachi . You need to go to the villages to find out whether the bus is their priority. I have been told severally that something I had wanted to do in my mind is not a priority. There is a time we built a very good social hall with a kitchen and I wanted to put up a bakery for ladies in the village to be trained on how to do pastries to enable them generate their own income, but they told me no. Instead, they suggested that I renovate a certain school. I had to abandon my ideas and do what they wanted. I got very good support in the said village because I and my committee listened to them. Participation, therefore, is a key characteristic in managing this fund Another characteristic of the NG-CDF is accountability. With this fund, we account for every coin that comes our way. We have a committee that is composed of various members who include people with disabilities, women, men, the youth and also Government officials. When somebody decides to rush to court to oppose this noble course, they then miss a very important point. This is not about me as a Member. I can survive without the NG-CDF, but my constituents cannot. They require this money to take their kids to schools. I can take my children to school without the NG-CDF, but my constituents cannot not. I know of many children whom I have helped navigate through high school and universities, and were it not for this fund, they would not have made it."
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