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    "id": 1340927,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tinderet, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Melly",
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    "content": "I thank the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee because in my presentation the Committee, during the 2023/2024, proposed that these infrastructure funds be taken to every constituency so that the Member of Parliament can manage it and stop Members from going to the Ministry to plead for these resources. These resources have been subdivided to go to every constituency based on the population or county. As indicated in the table, it shall be divided based on the number of schools and population. The Departmental Committee on Education and Research also saw it wise that in future, when we have more infrastructure funds, it shall be channelled through the NG-CDF where the Member of Parliament is able to make sure that the money is given to specific needy areas. I have sat in this Parliament for the last 10 years and I have realised that certain Members of Parliament would go line up at the Ministry of Education, pleading for infrastructure funds and they could not get it. This time, however, with the wisdom of the Government of the day of His Excellency President William Ruto, we have seen it right that this money be taken straight away to the constituencies and every constituency Member. It shall be ringfenced to build Grade Seven, Eight and Nine classrooms or laboratories and the Ministry is asking that you add the shillings that you have been given and for those who have got other amounts. From this document, I have seen that areas with more population get more money, which is the reason why even in our last discussion, in NG-CDF, the higher the population, the more the amount. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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