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    "id": 1219896,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1219896/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mwingi North, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Eng.) Paul Nzengu",
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    "content": " Thank you for this opportunity to contribute to this Motion of amending the Constitution to entrench the NG-CDF, the NGAAF, to create the Office of the Leader of Official Opposition, among other changes proposed by the President. From the outset, I support the thinking or the mind that informed this kind of thinking to the extent that we can amend the Constitution to create the NG-CDF as a constitutional fund. You notice that in the past almost eight years, there have been many court cases trying to quash or kill the NG-CDF. It is by some people that think that the NG-CDF funds are there to help Members. They think the fund is for the Members to enrich themselves, not knowing that the NG-CDF funds are to support poor students from poor families. In areas like where I come from, many children have gone to school because of these funds. It is everything that the community has. I support the fact that this fund must be entrenched in the Constitution so that we avoid some busy bodies and street lawyers who just want to feel like they want be known and seen by frustrating something so crucial to the country. Some of us have benefitted from funds similar to the NG-CDF. Had the community not educated us, we would not be here in this House. I support the entrenchment of the NGAAF into the Constitution so that we can avoid the same kind of court cases that the NG-CDF has suffered."
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