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    "id": 1414914,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyando, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jared Okello",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Allow me to take a tangent from Hon. Gikaria. On Tuesday this week, I raised an issue about a communication emanating from the NG-CDF Board to our respective Fund managers regarding removing the building of toilets from the proposals submitted last year. The substantive Speaker provided directives on the same. I do not know whether this filibustering or jelly meandering is supposed to create inordinate delays in the disbursement of funds. However, the Speaker directed that the Leader of the Majority Party was to present an answer before us yesterday. This was not done. This House does not legislate in vain, and therefore, the pronouncements of a Speaker cannot be ignored. We reckon this is our last day before we break for our short recess. That communication adversely affects the nature of disbursements as it suggests that constituencies will not be funded until they tinker with all the proposals. We are only two months into another financial cycle. If we allow this kind of monkey business to permeate this House, we risk falling short of the expectations of our electorates. The schools are closing for the April holidays, and immediately after they report back, teachers will demand money because they cannot operate schools without cash. We are two months into the end of this Financial Year, and yet constituencies have received less than 20 per cent of the allocated funds. The National Treasury had promised to disburse Ksh10 billion every month, but they have walked back on all these promises several times. What is the future of our children? A country that does not pay credence to the welfare of the children is a dead country. The Government is paying more attention to housing than our children's future. I do not need a house, but I am being forced to pay for a house. Therefore, the pronouncement from the Speaker on Tuesday vitiating the communication from the NG-CDF Board must be addressed now. If we do not, we welcome you back after recess when all the damage has been done. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I seek your indulgence and direction on this matter right now."
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