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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I also rise as a Member of the Committee to appreciate the Chair and the Leaders of Majority and Minority Parties for giving us the opportunity to go round the country and listen to Kenyans. Wherever we go, Kenyans talk about NG-CDF positively. If there is anything that this country ever did, then it is this Fund. It has led to construction of schools. When you look at the classrooms done by the National Government, they were built and left halfway. I will give you an example of Lavington Girls Secondary School. They built classrooms but they never put stairs for anyone to go to those classrooms. When you question them, they say there was no money for those stairs, but somebody went up with a ladder and ensured they built the classrooms. In terms of infrastructure in schools, especially in Nairobi, we are going to sit down with the Ministry of Education and ensure we use the model of NG-CDF to build 6,000 classrooms that we are talking about. I appreciate the President for that. Currently, there are roughly 209 schools across 17 constituencies with a huge population. I have a school in my constituency that has more than 4,000 Children. I also have a day school that has more than 3,800 pupils. When you look at that, you realise that there is need, as most of my colleagues have said, to look at equitable sharing. The other thing we must appreciate in this Bill is that it ensures that we do not have conflict with county governments according to the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution. The Bill allows us to align ourselves with the new Constitution, functions of the national Government and more importantly, ensure the judgment that we had from the courts is a thing of the past. If you keep going to court, you either have another agenda, cannot see what NG- CDF has done, or you are not in support of CBC. That is why you are running to court. But if you are in support of these children, we must ensure that CBC infrastructure functions. I am hoping those few Kenyans, and some of them are my friends, are not going to make the same mistake they have made. This is the only Fund you can audit by going to the ground to see. Today, I can say proudly that I am now doing better at Gatina Primary School, I have already done the laboratory at Muslim Primary School, I am about to start the laboratory of Nairobi Primary School and renovations at Muthangari Primary School and chief camps that I never used to have in Dagoretti North. With those few remarks, I am one Kenyan who is very proud today. Thank you."
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