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    "id": 1194236,
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    "speaker_name": "Nyando, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jared Okelo",
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    "content": "Therefore, it is sad that we will have to revert to coming up with a new constitutional order by tinkering the 2010 Constitution because judges refused to listen to the plight of the citizenry. All of us here know that for a long period of time, our schools have been dilapidated and quite rickety in nature. Some of the classrooms of the schools we went to were mud walled and we had to mop up our parents houses carrying cow dung and dirt to go and amend our schools. Some of us in this House went to schools where we studied under trees. Therefore, when this NG-CDF Act was brought to the fore, it cured more things than we could have ever imagined. Only those who are in this House understand properly the benefits that have come as a result of the NG-CDF. I also acknowledge that the Supreme Court vitiated the Constituencies Development Fund Act, 2013 Act. We still have the NG-CDF Act, 2015 which is in operation up to now. Therefore, nothing stops the Treasury from expending from the Exchequer monies to our constituencies. If somebody will want to hide behind an argument emanating from a decision that was made by the Supreme Court, then they will be lying to us. We are not operating under the CDF Act, 2013. We are operating under the new NG-CDF Act that was enacted in 2015. Therefore, when money will be available, we want the NG-CDF money sent to our constituency accounts as soon as possible. There are people who now hold very senior positions either in Government or in private sector. Most of these people went to school courtesy of bursaries. Today as we speak, we still have so many children held up in villages, who cannot go to school because constituencies are yet to receive the NG-CDF money so that we can address issues of bursaries. Therefore, I want to humbly request that you help us – through your Chair – to expedite this process so that we have these monies going to the ground for our children to be plugged into schools and have the projects that are ongoing in our schools, chiefs’ offices, police stations and many other places fast tracked. We have also included the Oversight Fund in this proposal that should be expended to the Members of the Senate. The NG-CDF Act, 2015 entirely alienated the Members of Parliament from any involvement in that Fund. On the flip side, failure to conduct a thorough follow up on that money will take an MP home at 4:00 a.m. So, whereas our roles are quite limited in nature, we bear the brunt of the failure of the NG-CDF Committee in general. So, even as we pursue money to go to the Senators to carry out an oversight role, this House equally needs the same amount of money so that MPs of the National Assembly can also move around and check if the Members of the NG-CDF Committee have committed themselves and have carried out all the projects that were arrived at hitherto by the same Committee with the involvement of our communities with exactitude. I will be making a further amendment to the Oversight Fund to read the Members of Parliament and not only the Senators."
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