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    "speaker_name": "Nyando, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jared Okello",
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    "content": " Thank you Hon. Temporary Speaker. That was a good banter. A fifth class will be added if we consider the junior secondary section. This means we have to up the NG-CDF allocation so as to incorporate junior secondary. Otherwise, if we are to move by the current budget allocation on bursary and the entire NG-CDF disbursed annually to sub-counties or constituencies, then we shall fall short by a big margin. Members of Parliament have been receiving requests after requests from parents of children in junior secondary schools. Again, the NG-CDF regulations and the Act do not talk about junior secondary schools. So, our hands are tied and we do not know what answers to give to the parents who are constantly at our doorsteps asking for assistance. I fully support the idea of increasing the bursary allocation from 35 per cent. If I can give an example of schools in Nairobi, to a larger extent they have already been built to completion. So, they consume little amounts of money in terms of infrastructural development. However, there are many students who are languishing at home. Nairobi Members of Parliament are at a gridlock. They do not know what to do. They have money but with a ceiling on bursary allocation. How I wish this would be midwifed into a Bill and enacted by this House quickly. That way, we can have the latitude to play about with this bursary as and when necessary. For instance, if Nairobi can have up to 60 per cent of its allocation going to bursaries, then a lot of students who are currently stuck somewhere would be in school. There is also the element of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) within the NG-CDF Board. I am afraid that this money only benefits those who sit in the NG-CDF Committee. For instance, Ombaka Primary School in my constituency suffers perennial flooding but it cannot access the CSR money from the NG-CDF Board. Therefore, we need to look into the real concern emanating from the ground and not just consider members of the NG-CDF Committee. Otherwise, all of us cannot be members of the NG-CDF Committee in order to get the CSR money from the Board. I think this has to be properly considered so that children across the country benefit the same way as others who have been endowed by the NG-CDF Committee. Hon. Temporary Speaker, thank you for the opportunity and I support."
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