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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mwingi Central, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Mulyungi",
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    "content": "The NG-CDF is an exemplary innovation. If you fly around the country, the only development projects you see deep inside the villages are its icons. Therefore, I stand to support these amendments because they will cushion its attack by the busybodies who have been taking it to court. This will never happen again. I want to send them a warning. They can go back to the drawing board and find out what they can do next but not on NG-CDF. I agree with the amendments that separate projects to be done by NG-CDF under the National Government and county governments. Further, I support the amendment that the term of NG-CDF committee members be changed from two to three years, so that they are aligned to the term of Parliament. When it was two years, the two terms would expire shortly before the elections. It will now be much easier because it will be in between. Further, Hon. Temporary Speaker, I support the amendment that the Cabinet Secretary does not have a role in appointing members of the NG-CDF Board. Its membership will be advertised competitively and appointed by the Public Service Commission (PSC) and then brought to the House for approval. So, it will not be political as it was in the past. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I agree with the proposal that the NG-CDF allocation for each constituency will never be below the previous year. It will always continue growing year in, year out and if the Government does not have money, it will remain static. This cushions parliamentarians when planning future developments in their constituencies. My constituency has a total of 365 schools, both primary and secondary. In all those schools, you will find a project funded by the NG-CDF and many of them have been completed. With time, you realise most Members of Parliament will have built all schools and completed them. Moving forward, they will be expanding them. On the amendments that will be brought by the NG-CDF Committee, I will move a proposal to increase bursary allocation from 35 per The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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