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    "id": 1368725,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Igembe South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Paul Mwirigi",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (Amendment) Bill. The NG-CDF has done a lot in our constituencies and the projects we have undertaken are tangible. This has made many envious of the NG-CDF until some took us to court. The action which our Leader of the Majority Party and the Deputy Leader of the Majority Party have taken to entrench NG-CDF in law is something that will develop this Fund. In my constituency, Igembe South, for example, this Fund has enabled me to be elected the second time because of the allocation of bursaries which we give to the less fortunate families. The NG-CDF has helped many vulnerable students or pupils to acquire education. This has helped our community to rise to a level where if this Fund was not there, it could not have managed to be where it is currently. Learners in most of the schools within my constituency used to conduct their learning under trees, but through the NG-CDF, we have built many classrooms within this constituency. We have enhanced security by building of security facilities and so, we have managed to bring security near the people of Igembe South Constituency. This NG-CDF being enacted to law will also create a defense where those who were not happy when the Fund was being utilised by the Members of this House to work for the people will not get a chance to take us to court again. This Fund is good. I foresee a situation where this Fund will be increased because some of the constituencies have many primary schools and administration offices. If it will be increased, it will do a lot for our people. Hon. Temporary Speaker, today I am the Member of Parliament for Igembe South. Were it not for the NG-CDF, I would not have managed to be elected the second time. This Fund is working. It is doing marvelous within our constituency. I conclude by wishing my students who are going to do their KCSE, the KCPE and the JSS exams all the bes Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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