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    "id": 1202457,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1202457/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "North Imenti, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Rahim Dawood",
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    "content": "million of Uwezo Fund. So, we need to replicate the hustlers’ fund and let it be administered from MPs’ offices to reduce paperwork and red-tape. Let us do it through the Uwezo Fund. It will be much better and easier to manage. MPs should be told that it is a revolving fund and not for free. Until we inculcate that in our people, they will not repay it. The President spoke about informal settlements as well as housing. In my constituency, we have not had title deeds for one or two places since Independence. It is very important to empower our people. They should have title deeds to their property because if they do not, how will they develop what they do not have papers for? At our place in Meru, we have done surveys for a long time, and I wish the incoming CS for Lands and Housing would look at Shauri Yako, which is an informal settlement. I am not saying shauri yako to our Hon. Speaker, but that is a name of an informal settlement next to the sewerage plant in Meru and next to Gakoromone Market, which is the biggest in the whole of East and Central Kenya. Up to date, we have not got title deeds. The housing dream is a very good thing. The Deputy Speaker said that Kibera will be changed. We need change everywhere there are informal settlements. Let us have slum upgrading projects which were there initially, but funding was inadequate. Hon. Speaker, it is good that our President promised the Judiciary more funds so that justice can be dispensed. The President spoke about it even yesterday. The head of Judiciary, the hon. Chief Justice (CJ) Martha Koome, comes from my constituency. In as much as we would like justice to be dispensed, the CJ and the whole Judiciary should not put roadblocks on any legislation which comes out of this Parliament and delay whatever is supposed to be done. As we are speaking, we are speaking from two sides of the mouth. One, we are talking about the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) Act of 2013, that was said to be unlawful. But we made changes in 2015 and it is now the NG-CDF. These are two different things. I believe that in law, something with a different name is not the same as another. In his Address, the President talked about NG-CDF being a game changer. He has said in private that he supports us having the NG-CDF. We need to move with haste to entrench the NG-CDF into the Constitution. I believe already one MP is pushing for that. As Members of Parliament, we need to ascertain that we have the NG-CDF, because school children are at home because there are no bursaries. We talk about free primary or secondary school, but there is nothing that is free. Yesterday, I got a call from one of the parents who told me they are asked to pay for one thing or the other. Hon. Speaker, the other thing is the national debt. We need to reduce our national debt. I agree with the President that we need to reduce the Budget by Kshs.300 billion. But the money should not be removed from the development budget. It should be removed from the recurrent expenditure, because we all need roads and a lot of other things in the constituencies. When they bring the Supplementary Budget, they should not think of removing the Kshs.45 billion of the NG-CDF, because the Supplementary Budget will not pass in this House. I believe that is the feeling of this House. Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I congratulate you again."
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