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    "id": 1194531,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Naivasha, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jayne Kihara",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me this chance. I am a pioneer of NG-CDF. We were with you, Hon. Speaker, in the parliament that enacted the Fund. Hon. Namwamba took CDF to court, but when he became a Member, he realised how important the Fund was. It is the most devolved Fund in the country. Hon. Muriuki Karue came up with it because then there was a famous phrase that a development project would only be done 'when funds became available'. The regions that did not support the Government of the day never got development. The NG-CDF goes to every corner of the country. I happen to have been a wife of a Member of Parliament who did not have NG-CDF. It was such a difficult leadership. I would see my husband sell a cow and give all the money to a parent whose kid was not in school. That is how this Fund is important. At that time, we used to construct hospitals and provide water until devolution came to our aid. We literally used to do everything. I was in the pioneer Committee of the then CDF and I travelled across this country. Members, then, would just sit here to make laws. Members are supposed to give. They are supposed to distribute even if there is nothing to be given! It feels so good when a young man comes and tells me that he went to school courtesy of my NG-CDF and is now working. As we talk, calls are coming in because people need bursaries. If there is a segment of bursary that goes to the county governments, I wish Hon. Gichimu and Hon. Mule would bring it back so that it is channeled through NG-CDF. We are the people who stand with students and parents, and we know where it bites. I happened to have been at the place where the idea was mooted by Hon. Mule and Hon. Gichimu. I thought it to be the greatest idea. If we never had the NG-CDF today, you would see marginalisation in the regions that did not support the sitting Government. I remember a parent telling me that if NG-CDF is revoked, we should tell Kenyans to come out to the streets because they know how they benefit from it. Without much ado, I thank Hon. Gichimu and Hon. Mule. Let us support this legislative proposal to amend the Constitution because we are the ones who represent the electorate. We are the ones who know where it bites. If you do not support the Government, there are chances that you will not get development."
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