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    "id": 1211254,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Igembe South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Paul Mwirigi",
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    "content": " Thank you Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute on this Motion. For me to get a chance to serve a second time it was through the hand of NG-CDF and how I utilised it. These funds contributed a lot towards the development of my constituency. So, the President’s memorandum is speaking to our hearts. It is very important to do what it takes to ensure that the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) is anchored in the Constitution and the allocation is even increased to 5 per cent so that what we receive from the national Government helps us to develop our constituencies even more. Most of the students we normally pay school fees for are from poor families. We educate orphaned students with these funds which means that they do not waste time after primary school. Students are, therefore, able to better their lives and become good people in this country. Secondly, I support the Women Enterprise Development Fund so that our honourable Members who represent us from the counties can have something with which to fulfil their promises as per their manifesto. I also support the Senate Oversight Fund. It should not just be a Senate issue but it should be a parliamentary oversight fund so that each and every Member of Parliament can benefit from it because we all perform an oversight role. We are supposed to be facilitated to oversee projects that we are implementing when we go back to our constituencies to ensure that they are audited. The Senate should also be able to oversee whatever projects counties are implementing to ensure that the funds allocated to them are fully utilised. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I also support the position of the Leader of Official Opposition being anchored in the Constitution. We can never tell who will be the Leader of Opposition during an election but he or she is somebody who is voted in by the people and comes in as a second runners-up in the presidential elections. This leader ought to have an office where he or she can operate from. We do not know for sure how an incoming Government will behave towards the Opposition. If the Government has misled the country and the Opposition is supposed to perform an oversight role, they may organise demonstrations. We do not know how such a Government would react to such. So, it is good to have this position so that whenever the Government goes wrong, there is somebody who can oversee it and point out what it is doing wrong. I thank the Kenya Kwanza Government because the President said that he is ready to be oversighted. Without oversight, many things go haywire without us realising that the Government is messing up the country. However, when the Government allows its people to oversee it, funds will not be misappropriated. Whenever cases of corruption arise, the Opposition will be in charge of checking the Government to ensure that the right thing is done and justice is carried out. That will ensure that our people benefit fully from the Government of the day. I would like to urge all Members to ensure that this Motion is supported and acted upon fast so that our people can benefit. 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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