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    "id": 1475348,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1475348/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Eldas, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Adan Keynan",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
        "slug": "adan-keynan"
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    "content": "Muriuki Karue apply his creative mind and come up with this unique development initiative. I have seen what NG-CDF has done. I have represented two constituencies. The number of development projects that are initiated in my former constituency, Wajir West, and my current one, Eldas, through NG-CDF, are more than the combined development initiatives since we got Independence. In our place, we say NG-CDF is our government. Under Article 1 of the Constitution of Kenya, the framers equated sovereignty to representation. Who are those busy- bodies who want to disregard representation and rubbish the role of the elected Members of Parliament? I have one message for them: We have seen the actions, inactions, activities and innuendos of those busy-bodies, whoever they are. Can we stand firm as Members of Parliament? It is not about the usual complaining. No! We should stand firm and bring a constitutional amendment so that we entrench NG-CDF in the Constitution. We should remove it from the ambits of those gullible and vulnerable busy-bodies. Hon. Speaker, how long shall we deny Kenyans the right to enjoy a piece of the national cake? I am shocked or dismayed to see such a ruling. Ideally, the roles of the three arms of Government are inter-dependent. They support each other for the good or well-being of Kenya. But when you have a targeted approach to rubbish one arm of Government, then it does not add value. Finally, the framers of the current Constitution devolved some of the functions. After this, you will hear that the provincial administration is illegal because the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) only covers education and national security. Are those two functions of the counties? They are not. They are functions of the National Government. Colleagues, I know NG-CDF is not in the ambit of the Members of Parliament because we have delinked it from us. It is a completely independent entity. But it is still being pushed to us. If you want to remain relevant and your constituencies to develop, stand firm, wake up tomorrow, put your heads together and entrench that entity in the Constitution, so that there is no room for any busybodies to challenge it. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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