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    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Millie Odhiambo-Mabona",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I can see my good friend, Hon. Gladys Boss Sholei has left the Chair. Now we have my uncle who is now very preoccupied with a new subject other than gender. However, I will not mention his agenda. I support the Report of the Decentralized Funds Accounts Committee on the consideration of the Reports of the Auditor-General on the Financial Statements for the NG- CDF in different constituencies that is before this House. I will not speak too much to the issues that Members have spoken about. Indeed, I agree with Members that the NG-CDF has enhanced development in our constituencies. One of the things that was very common, especially in rural constituencies like mine was mud-walled classrooms. With the NG-CDF, mud-walled classrooms have become a thing of the past. Hon. Temporary Speaker, the other thing that I would want to praise the NG-CDF for is enhanced equity. In the past, if you did not vote for the Government – and I recently heard a statement to that effect – there would be no development on your side of the world. With the NG-CDF, whether you support the Government or not, you will have funds through which you can support your constituency. Because of that, democracy is enhanced, which is a good thing. However, one of the things that we need to mention about the NG-CDF is that we now need to move from equity to equality. Why do I say that? One of the things that many in the public would challenge us on is in relation to what my good friend, the late Hon. Bernard Okoth of Kibra Constituency said. People would tell you to look at the kind of classes that Hon. Bernard was building. He would construct storied buildings while you constructed one or two classes. What people did not realise is that Kibra has nine schools and we have over 100 schools. How do nine established schools compete against almost 200 schools in the rural areas? Some of those areas do not have schools and you would have to construct new schools like in Sukuru Island, where I built the first class ever. Because of that, we need to move more towards equality in the provision of the NG-CDF, and not only equity. Currently, the NG-CDF uses equity and not equality to distribute funds."
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