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    "id": 1202928,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1202928/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 185,
        "legal_name": "Danson Buya Mungatana",
        "slug": "danson-mungatana"
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    "content": "I want to speak to the issue of the National Government Constituency Development Fund (NGCDF). I am grateful that His Excellency the President stated in his Speech that he will support efforts to constitutionalize this Fund. As I speak to you, in Tana River County like in many other counties, so many students who were dependent on the CDF bursaries have been sent back home by the headteachers and principals. We cannot demonize these heads of institutions. We cannot say that they should not send these children home, because what are they going to feed them on? These funds were a reality and I know for a fact that there is a Member of Parliament from our county who was elected solely because he managed that CDF very well as far as bursaries were concerned. Every parent was saying they would re-elect him because their children were not paying school fees. These children are now back home. The President must do something to the million of Kenyans not just in Tana River but the whole country who are back at home. We as legislators, even our governors, do"
}