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    "id": 1193642,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1193642/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Lugari, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Nabii Nabwera",
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    "content": "donated powers of the populace and our Constitution is supreme, then why would a member of the Judiciary, for example, not see the common good of the NG-CDF, if he cannot see anything else? Why do we find ourselves prescribing in the Constitution things that should be left to legislation? It is because as a people we have decided to have bad manners? Those of us who come from the western part of Kenya, from West Pokot to Tarime, know that until the NG-CDF was established, our region had been disenfranchised of development. Successive regimes thought that we better be underdeveloped because we are big-headed. Even the money that remains in the Ministry of Education for infrastructure development has not found its way to western Kenya or Nyanza. It has always been used in some parts of this country. Whereas I have mud-walled classrooms, the other day I was shocked to learn that a school in Central Kenya got slightly over Ksh500 million for infrastructure development. It is only reasonable that the NG-CDF be anchored in the Constitution to help those of us who have been disenfranchised. The amount of money to the NG-CDF must be increased so that we can expand the development horizon to cover areas that are not covered such as provision of water. We put up good infrastructure in schools, but we do not provide water and so, children in those schools continue to suffer. I would like the NG-CDF funds to be used to cover the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) contributions. Some of us come from communities that have many vulnerable people."
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