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    "id": 1194227,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Siaya County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Christine Ombaka",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I thank Mhe. Muli and Mhe. Githinji, who brought this proposal. It is a good one because we are dealing with special funds. The NG-CDF has been known to perform very well. Schools have been built and security has been enhanced because of the NG-CDF. The NGAAF came much later in 2016 after women representatives who were elected in 2013 lobbied to be given a fund. It came a bit too late and it is also too little. It is for this reason that I wish that we would consider allocating a little bit more to the NGAAF because it is performing very well on the ground. It is helping to pay school fees for needy students. It is giving groups of women, youths and people living with disabilities funds for biashara . The NGAAF has done a lot. The biggest issue that we need to highlight as we fight to maintain the NG-CDF and other funds is to increase the allocation. The amount allocated is far too little for a Fund that covers a whole county. Some women representatives have six constituencies to take care of. Others like the Nairobi Women Representative, has 17 constituencies. The Kakamega Women Representative is taking care of 12 constituencies. We are covering huge areas and the funds allocated are not enough. That is why during elections many women representatives do not come back to this House. It is because it is assumed that they underperformed. That is not true. They work very hard and perform very well but they are let down by the fact that the funds allocated for the NGAAF are far too little. That is why I support this proposal. It will go far in helping vulnerable people on the ground, just like the NG-CDF has done. The Senate Oversight Fund is also necessary. We need to support each other because even the Senators feel the pinch on the ground since they have nothing to offer. They have no affirmative action funds to take care of the people who voted for them. Let us consider giving them this Fund instead of wondering what they are likely to do with it. We can spell out their role and how they can utilise the Fund but we still need to embrace them and ensure that they are not left behind. They, too, need some funds because some of us here may end up being Senators someday. We will then start regretting why we never allocated any funds to them. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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