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    "id": 1451729,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1451729/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Chesumei, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Paul Biego",
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    "content": "What we see in our villages, what we see in our constituencies and what is visible is what the NG-CDF has done. We are alive to the fact that so many billions go to the county governments. But if you walk around the country, what you are going to see and what is visible is what the NG- CDF has built. What we see in our villages is what the NG-CDF has done. We are alive to the fact that so many billions of shillings go to county governments, but if you walk around the country, what is really visible is what the NG-CDF has built. The NG-CDF bursary, of course, is open to local primary, secondary and tertiary institutions and, hence, accommodating a wide span of education beneficiaries. Why I also like and support it is because it supports postgraduate students. In my constituency, we have more than 9,000 students who are benefiting from a programme called Free Primary Food Programme that we initiated. So, I cannot imagine what 9,000 students will do if the NG-CDF is scrapped. That Fund has received praises from across the board. It has been praised for incorporating the poverty index in the allocation of part of the funds, and this has a high impact potential in addressing historical and systematic wrongs such as regional disparities. The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics found that Kenya was a nation with huge disparities in service accessibility, quality and efficiency and, hence, the NG-CDF, being a public Fund, plays a crucial role in addressing some of those disparities."
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