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    "id": 1220031,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1220031/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kieni, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Antony Wainaina",
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    "content": "First and foremost is on matters of the NG-CDF, the proposed allocation to our Senators and how it has been structured. How I wish all government spending is structured like the NG- CDF. Only 6 per cent of the NG-CDF goes to Recurrent Expenditure. Therefore, over 90 per cent of the allocation to the NG-CDF goes directly to Development Expenditure, unlike with the National Government and county governments where far below 30 per cent or even much less goes to development. Recurrent Expenditure takes a lot of money. How I wish the Government borrowed the foundation of the NG-CDF so that much of the allocations going to county governments go towards development. I suggest it would be good if the allocation to the NG-CDF is not only doubled but also made tenfold. The money that the public of Kenya feels is that which has been contributed through the NG-CDF. It is a community fund. It goes a long way to assist the communities in their development agenda. Were it not for the NG- CDF, I wonder what would have been the education status for this year. When the NG-CDF was just about to become extinct early this country, you remember the hue and cry we had across the country. It is only through the NG-CDF that a majority of our students have gone through the education system up to university. I cannot forget to comment on the NGAAF of the Women Representatives. They are wonderful. They have done wonders in their communities using the very little funds that go to them. It is for that purpose that we say both the NG-CDF and the NGAAF are the most important funds going to the public. For that purpose, I wish this House could have these funds entrenched in the Constitution quickly and have more resources allocated to them."
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