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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Naisula Lesuuda (",
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    "content": "Samburu West, KANU): Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to contribute on the judgement on NG-CDF. We cannot over-emphasise the importance of the NG-CDF in our constituencies. There is this notion among many people that NG-CDF is pocket change for Members of Parliament. Without fear or favour, I wish to state that if there is a fund that has accountability, it is the NG-CDF. It goes to the constituencies with an Authority to Incur Expenditure (AIE), what it is supposed to do and the money follows that AIE. When auditors go to the ground, they see whether that classroom or police station has been built, or whether a child has got a bursary. That is the truth on the ground. If there is any person who is thinking that there is a Member of Parliament who is misusing those monies, we have investigative bodies which should follow up on it. We cannot be blanketly condemned to be corrupt, and that NG-CDF is our money when that is not the point. We can also not be a House of lamentations. We are the ones who make the laws in this House. We will not wait for the National Dialogue Committee (NADCO) Report to entrench NG-CDF in the Constitution. We should extract NG-CDF from the NADCO Report so that we can bring it to this House as a stand-alone issue to be entrenched in the Constitution. That is because we might wait for the NADCO Report until the two years are over. The 13th Parliament should be remembered as the House that entrenched NG-CDF in the Constitution, so that it cannot be a ping-pong game depending on who is on the bench. Secondly, the hate that Hon. Junet has talked about is true. People generally hate Members of Parliament. After NG-CDF is entrenched in the Constitution, I will not be surprised if the Judiciary says it is unconstitutional. This is because of the hate that people have towards the Members of Parliament. In conclusion, now that I am on the Floor of the House, I would like to remind the Executive that there is one cabinet secretary position that has not been filled in this country."
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