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"speaker_title": "Hon. Majimbo Kalasinga",
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"content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this time to add my sentiments on this very important initiative. You realise that we come from a constituency, and every Thursday when we leave to go back to meet our people, we get thousands of children in different school uniforms, in our compounds waiting for financial support. Before, this was done through the NG-CDF bursaries, which we do not have because they were not released this term. I take this time to ask the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Planning to expedite the disbursement of this fund, which was due to us this financial year. We do not want that money to come in bits, but to be released at once, so that we can work with it. Looking at the NG-CDF and those who engineered it, it has done well, increased and progressed. When we speak of 2.5 per cent that was then, as we progress in revenue collection, according to me, 5 per cent is okay. When you look at Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz, these two people manufactured the Mercedes Benz. The first Mercedes Benz had so many problems, but the current one is modified to standard. We want to modify the NG-CDF, increase its percentage and what it does. By raising this money to 5 per cent, we want to take care of the constituency roads, which we rely on the Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA) to build, but they have very little money. We need to take the issues of employment because when we release these funds to local contractors to build classes in our constituencies, they use local fundis, and this money percolates down to our people. That way, we raise their economic standards using the NG- CDF. Without forgetting that we want a green government, and for us to attain 10 per cent forest cover in this country and improve our environment, when we increase the percentage that the NG-CDF offers, we shall attain this. I have a lot of respect for those who brought the NG-CDF. Before this, you could find two policemen sharing one house; one married and the other one single. The rooms were not separated and shared by both officers in the same house. Some were denied conjugal rights because of sharing rooms since the other one without a wife will have issues. However, the NG-CDF has built houses for policemen. In this country, you get policemen in different houses staying very well as officers. Therefore, we must promote the NG-CDF, and anyone standing in its way does not understand. Hon. Temporary Speaker, nowadays you cannot watch television. If you are watching news, what you see are tears from students who were beneficiaries of the NG-CDF crying alone. When I watched news yesterday, there was a story about one student from Kisii from Kibabii High School who dropped out of school and is sitting at home. His parents said that he will stay home for more than three months as they look for money. It is high time that when one moves to court, they first assess why they are doing so."
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