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    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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    "content": "are in very good, habitable modern offices. We have built police station upon police station. In fact, in the grand ultra-modern Riruta Police Station, which is multi-stored, a digitised Occurrence Book (OB) is in the computer there. We have built the Mukarara Central Kitchen, out of which we feed 10,000 students every day. The kitchen has a capacity of feeding up to 20,000 pupils in our comprehensive school feeding programme. This is just to mention a few of the things that NG-CDF can do if well managed, overseen and superintended. That is why I rose to support this Motion. In fact, when it comes to the Committee stage, I shall be proposing some amendments. These amendments are actually Bills to this proposal. The House was very wise in having a pre-publication conference, where Members ventilated, and put in some bits so that the proposers can draft a Bill and include some of these amendments. It is my view that if the NG-CDF is working well for constituencies as a decentralised fund, we should be thinking about how much further can we decentralise funds. That is why the amendment that I seek to bring is to amend Clause 204 to introduce a new segment; Clause 204(E), which will seek to further establish an Equitable Development Fund which shall be a county government fund. This fund shall consist of money of not less than a certain percentage of the share of the revenue that is allocated for each county as divided by the County Allocation Revenue Act enacted pursuant to Article 218 of the Constitution. This clause, in its second part, will read that: “All money allocated under this Article shall be considered as funds allocated to wards pursuant to Article 207(2)(a) to be administered in accordance with the provisions of an Act of Parliament;” and “(c) Parliament shall enact legislation to make further provisions for operation of this Article.” I had thought that I would push a Floor amendment, but I later got to understand what we are doing this afternoon. We are doing a pre-conference. I note that even as we speak, we have, in the Speaker’s Gallery, Members of the County Assemblies (MCAs) from different counties. We have Hon. Mwaura, Hon. Mutie and Hon. Amina from Nairobi City County, who are here to see if Members can be magnanimous enough to see, as they enjoy the CDF, whether we can unlock what MCAs have unlocked with their governors. Let us see how we shall decentralise funds further. We have seen the effect of decentralising funds, the impact they have and the benefits they accrue for the good of this nation and for the people who elect us. This is the work we came to do in Parliament. Thank you for the opportunity."
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