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    "id": 1451740,
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    "speaker_name": "Mwingi North, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Eng.) Paul Nzengu",
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    "content": "shared between the constituencies in Kenya. If that was not the case, I am sure there are constituencies in Kenya which would never have had any roads repaired because of the fact that they may not be reading from the same script with certain people in power. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I brought the same issue to this Parliament. I was asking about the distribution of the money from the Government of Kenya (GoK) funds; the ones that are not distributed by the Roads Act, that allocates money for KeRRA, the 22 per cent, and the balance, 10 per cent, which goes to the Cabinet Secretary’s allocation. You realise that those funds never get to certain constituencies and yet, you hear that a certain county has been allocated over Ksh2 billion. Unfortunately, a county like Kitui gets less than Ksh50 million. That is the kind of comparison that I can make. When money is distributed according to the constituencies, it reaches every corner of this country. But when money is left to an individual to decide, that money only gets to certain people, and not to every corner of our country. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I want to appreciate the fact that those NG-CDF monies have done a tremendous job and have changed the scenario in the country. Of course, there could be issues on distribution. For example, in my constituency, I have 282 primary schools and 58 secondary schools. That is a total of 340 schools. I have 94 sub-locations and 34 locations. When you compare that with other constituencies, you will realise that some constituencies are sort of disadvantaged in one way or another, because we are given an equal amount of money and yet the number of schools that are supposed to benefit from the NG-CDF funds are not the same. You will even find that some rural constituencies have less than 100 schools. Some urban constituencies have just three or four schools. People in my constituency might not understand that the NG-CDF funds allocated to me have to take care of 340 schools compared to Nairobi, where Eastleigh has only four schools. When they see the NG-CDF doing storey classrooms in Eastleigh, they start complaining by asking why their NG-CDF is not constructing storey buildings. Some schools in Nairobi City County even get tarmac roads because they cannot keep on building storey classrooms. So, I think there may be some misconceptions that can be corrected going forward. The confidence that comes with the NG-CDF is the same that resulted in the President declaring the money that was supposed to be set aside to build Junior Secondary Schools to be channelled through the NG-CDF. Why is it so? It is because it has been proven that NG-CDF funds are always channelled in the right way and the projects are done to completion. When the money goes to the Ministry, there are so many loopholes and the money may be lost. In my view, that is very clear. I think it is completely misplaced for senators to agitate for the winding up of the NG-CDF. I have met people who are supporting certain senators and claiming that Members of Parliament consume 70 per cent and only 30 per cent of the NG-CDF funds goes to the implementation of projects. It is a pity, and I think senators should be given public education so that they can understand the NG-CDF Act. I, thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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