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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bomet East, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Richard Yegon",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. Before I continue, I would like to say that I support the Motion for amendment of the Constitution in order to entrench the NG-CDF Act in it. Hon. Temporary Speaker, let it be known that the NG-CDF is supported far and wide. In my Constituency, people from all corners stream in my place asking me when I am going to give them NG-CDF. School children who have been sent home for non-payment of fees have gone to queue at my NG-CDF office hoping to receive some help. This is something that this House must support fully. I must say that we would be digging our own graves, if this thing is not enacted or entrenched in the Constitution. Hon. Members of the National Assembly, you will not come back to this House in 2027 if you do not save the NG-CDF. Therefore, we need to work round the clock, as Members, to make sure that the NG-CDF is safeguarded. We also need to entrench in the Constitution the Senate Oversight Fund, and the NGAAF for the County Women Representatives to make sure that in future, there will be no problems of people going to court to challenge their legality. The infrastructure we have in our constituencies, especially school buildings, chiefs’ offices and housing for security personnel, is all courtesy of the NG-CDF. This single fund has been felt far and wide across the country. As we know, before the initial CDF was established, there was nothing tangible that was happening in the countryside in terms of development. Parliament, in its wisdom, went a long way to make sure that everybody in the country was catered for through the initial CDF Act and, subsequently, through the NG-CDF. What I wanted to say about the NG-CDF is that we should not even be talking about entrenching it in the Constitution but rather about increasing its allocation from the 2.5 per cent of national revenue to 10 per cent, so that we can undertake even bigger projects in our areas of representation. The current allocation of 2.5 per cent of national revenue is very little. Therefore, we need to be guided to have this allocation increase. The people who are feeling that the NG-CDF is managed by Members of Parliament are misinformed. We are just but the conveyer belt or oversight Members. We are not even signatories when it comes to 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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