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    "id": 1194330,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Muhoroni, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. James K’oyoo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for remembering me at last. Many of the issues I intended to raise have been raised by my colleagues. I only want to say that I thank the drafters of this new legislative proposal. The Hon. Member of Matungulu, my good friend, and his colleague have done a great job. This is long overdue. The NG-CDF has done much good to this country. I want to bring to your attention in this House that there was an attempt to bring something similar to NG-CDF much earlier, before the NG-CDF. It was during President Moi’s regime and by the all-powerful then Head of Public Service, Simeon Nyachae. He brought the District Focus for Rural Development. Because implementation was placed in the hands of Government bureaucrats, it went down without anything to write home about. Fortunately, Hon. Karue came up with the NG- CDF whose impact on the ground was so impressive that any attempt at dissolving or cutting the features of the NG-CDF is like killing the small citizen in this country. I have used the NG- CDF to do a better version of the so-called bottoms-up economic model. In my concept, I made sure I fully sponsor students from the down-trodden families of my constituency who sat for the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) in public schools and passed exams to be invited to national schools. I would also fully sponsor those who passed their Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) very well and were called to do certain disciplines like engineering, law, medicine, and architecture. I have brought up children from down-trodden families in my constituency. They are now at the top because children from privileged families do not work very hard. Therefore, any attempt to get rid of the NG-CDF is an attempt to get rid of the life span of the people and my constituency. There is confusion that must be corrected. That the Senate has Members who have come from this House and they know very well that this money does not belong to the Member of Parliament. The NG-CDF appropriation is done by the NG-CDF Board and it goes to various constituencies. No monies are spent or given until the projects that were going on have been checked by the NG-CDF Board and confirmed that they have been done to satisfaction. That is when more monies are released. The perplexing impression that they want to give out there is that the NG-CDF belongs to the MP and yet, the MP is just but an overseer. He is not even a signatory to any funds that come from this Fund. This nation of people outside there thinking that the money belongs to MPs is a wrong notion that should be corrected immediately. 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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