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    "id": 1211225,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kacheliba, KUP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Titus Lotee",
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    "content": "We have got an opportunity, as Members of Parliament, to save the NG-CDF. There are people who are saying that we should do away with the NG-CDF. Those are people who hate the NG-CDF. They would want to ensure that the NG-CDF is dead. We might play with it today; we might play with it next year, but we might not play with it all the time. If we do not anchor it in the Constitution, the NG-CDF will eventually die. In order for us to ensure that, those funds are secure, we need to put them squarely in the Constitution. I do not think this requires a referendum. The referendum has already been on the peoples’ heart. People already require the NG-CDF to be secured. The percentage of the annual national revenue that should be going to the NG-CDF need to be known from the word go. This also goes along with NGAAF. This Fund has been treated as a gift from the President, having been the CEO of the National Government Affirmative Action Fund. Having sat there as the CEO, you realise that you need to sweet-talk the Cabinet Secretary in charge of the National Treasury. You need to sweet-talk the President for you to get funding. It is not secure at all. It is at the behest of leaders who sit at the National Treasury and yet, that Fund has totally transformed some affirmative action groups - the women groups that we see, the markets that we see, the bodaboda riders, and the shades that we see. If we cannot secure this funding by putting it into the Constitution, we will be losing a whole lot of people that have benefitted from this Fund. I support that both NGAAF and NG-CDF be anchored in our Constitution. We do not have an option about it. If we do not do it now, we will be the people who will go into record as having allowed the NG- CDF to go down the drain. 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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