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    "speaker_name": "Suna West, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Masara",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Once again. I rise to support the Report of the Auditor-General for nine constituencies in Bungoma on the NG-CDF. It is high time Kenyans understood the impact of the National Government Constituencies Development Fund. Before the NG-CDF, the only fund that was felt on the ground in this country was the Local Authorities Transfer Fund (LATF). I happened to be the last Mayor of Migori. That is the Fund whose projects are still visible on the ground almost ten or so years after its collapse. As the Mayor of Migori Municipal Council, through LATF, which was hardly Ksh50 million, we started several health centres like Midoti Dispensary, Ragana Dispensary, Dip Dispensary, Onyalo Secondary School, Ondong’ Dispensary and several water projects and roads. I come from Migori County where the county government has received billions of shillings. However, if we compare it with what was done using LATF those days, my friends, it is like day and night. We, therefore, need to strengthen the NG-CDF and add more money to it. My sister, the Member of Parliament for Busia, mentioned something about marginalisation. Assuming one day one time we get a rogue president, who does not love a certain community and decides not to take any money to them through the Appropriation Act, the only remedy the community can get is the NG-CDF. Before I attest to that, many people do not know that the deputy county commissioner is a member of the NG-CDF committee. The district accountant is a mandatory signatory of the NG-CDF account. We have the public works officer employed by the Government who must give a payment certificate because he is a technical person. Above all, the fund manager, who is employed by the Board, is a mandatory signatory. The rest of the NG-CDF committee is composed of people with disability and minority individuals from specific wards. The role of Members of Parliament is oversight as per the NG-CDF Act of 2015. Members of Parliament are only patrons and oversee the Fund. It is high time this country awarded performing Members of Parliament State commendation. Members need to be given a lot of money for oversight because they use their vehicles and time to oversee the full implementation of projects. In my Suna West Constituency alone, in the last six years, through the NG-CDF, we have started 21 public primary schools where land is being bought; some for even Ksh3 million. Those schools do not just have two classrooms, but rather some have storey classrooms. For example, St. 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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