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    "id": 1211710,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1211710/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugenya, MDG",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Ochieng’",
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        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
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    "content": "our constituencies today and look at the kind of money we spend on administering National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF), it is less than 10 million. Compare that to how much the counties are using to employ staff for administration. It is 40 per cent and in some places 50 per cent. If we entrenched NG-CDF and National Government Affirmative Action Fund (NGAAF); if we allowed Senate to have some resources to be able to go around to ensure that counties’ money work, we will be better off. We need more money in the grassroots and not less. No one said and I do not believe that the only level of devolution should be the county governments. I want to ask the Government to clear the air that NG-CDF will never give way. The money we will receive should never be sent to the counties. It will always remain at the constituency level. The work of a Member of Parliament becomes easier not because he fiddles or puts his hand in the NG-CDF but because through it, schools have been built and children go to school. Last week, and I have been doing this for the last 10 years - there has never been news in this country since I became the Member of Parliament of a child in Ugenya who scored good marks and has not gone to school. It is true for all constituencies that we use such a system to cater for everybody else that we need to. If a child from Kwanza Constituency is called to Alliance High School, Hon. Wanyonyi is able to get money and send the kid to school. If a child from Seme Constituency is called to Mang’u High School and lives with his or her grandparents who probably are unable to pay school fees, they are able to sort the children throughout their school through the NG-CDF. We have seen how counties handle bursaries. It results to nepotism, corruption, and all sort of things. The best fund that we have, the one that is close to the people and serves interests of the county with very little administration fees is the NG-CDF. Parliament and the people must support the President’s word, NGAAF and the NG-CDF, and allow Senators have their own money to go around the country to help make the Government better. If we did not have the opposition in this country today; and you know all presidents in the world who have good intentions, some of them, somehow become rogue"
}