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    "id": 1368771,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Turkana East, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Nicholas Ng’ikor",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this chance to add my voice to this important Bill. I fail to understand why the busybodies are fighting this Fund. I believe that the NG- CDF has become a threat to other development partners, or even the devolved money. It has done a lot with little money. If you compare 2.5 per cent of our revenue against 290 constituencies and 15 per cent of the total budget of this country against 47 counties, NG-CDF, through the management committees, has done a lot. Maybe, the busybodies are sponsored by those who are supposed to do development in other parts of this country. That is why they rush to court most of the time to talk about it. It is our time to find out what all this is about. We need busybodies to be incorporated into public participation on the many matters that need to be incorporated into the NG-CDF so that they stop disturbing us. Instead of talking about how we can increase allocation to NG-CDF, we continue talking about negative issues about it. I believe that if we take these people who have gone to court around this country, to every constituency, they can even be stoned to death by the public. This is because of the benefits the public get from NG-CDF. This is the only money that gets to the common mwananchi. It is the only money for which mwananchi makes a decision on their own on the projects to be undertaken. The 85 per cent budgetary allocation to the national government is run by the Executive. The devolution money disbursed to counties is also run by the county executive. It is only NG-CDF that is run by the common mwananchi. When we talk about this Fund, we talk about a reality, something that touches on the lives of our people every day. My home county receives an allocation of about Ksh13 billion but if you go to those villages, there is no county project to account for that money. But in the same villages you will get NG-CDF projects. That tells us that NG-CDF is very important in the development of this country. As Members, we need to support NG-CDF by all means. Even if it is about what the Member for Rangwe has said, it is time we made this Bill a law so that we forget about it and focus on other development issues. We should not take long to talk about this issue because it is very important to our people. With those remarks, I wish to stop there. I also wish all students sitting their exams in my constituency the best of luck. Let God be with them. I am sure they will all be successful. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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