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    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "On Page 11, I understand the first issue is from Likoni Constituency in Mombasa County. You may understand that the Member for Likoni might be busy elsewhere. However, the people of Likoni Constituency and Kenyans elected us, as Members of Parliament (MPs), to come to represent them. More importantly, it is to oversight the Government on their behalf. The NG-CDF is a Fund of the national Government that is implemented by the project implementation committees under the stewardship of the fund account managers. That is why you will find, many a times, the media getting excited whenever an issue touching on the NG-CDF is prosecuted even in a Report like this. Many people imagine that you can prosecute and persecute the MP of that constituency for this matter. Whereas we bear the bigger responsibility of overseeing those Funds, we, as MPs, are not the implementers of those projects. Therefore, it is rather important that the MP, who is charged with responsibility of overseeing those Funds on behalf of the people of the constituency they are elected in, are here when Reports like those are being debated in the House. This is so that they can speak to the issues that are raised by the Auditor-General and looked into by a Committee of this House that interrogates all those reports. I must say it is rather embarrassing showing that a number of us have found it better to be out there on the streets in maandamano, and I do not know over what. They are demanding that we open servers that the people in the streets have no keys to, whereas we should be demanding that the money allocated to their constituencies is properly utilised for the benefit of their constituents. But you have abdicated that responsibility and gone to the streets. Therefore, we must encourage Members. If you allow me, let me say it is all the constituencies in Mombasa County. I do not think I see any Member from Mombasa County in the House today; not even one. Looking around, I do not see any Member from Kwale and Tana River counties. Before I even mention Kilifi County, Hon. Omboko is saying that the Member who represents Shakahola is not in the House and, indeed, the Member for Malindi Constituency is not in."
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