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    "id": 1475366,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I acknowledge the change of guard. The courts had their day. Parliament has its day to remind them that they can err or make mistakes. When you read that judgement, you notice a fundamental fault in how they decided on this matter. They said that a constituency cannot be a unit of devolution. We all know that the NG-CDF is not a devolved fund. In fact, they should say that the national Government has decentralised the monies from the centre to the 290 constituencies. This is also to disabuse or a notion that by removing NG-CDF, that anybody can imagine they are punishing a member of parliament. In Dagoretti South Constituency, the NG-CDF does not benefit Hon. John Kiarie. It has been used to renovate all primary schools and built in excess of seven new schools in the constituency. Out of the 12 new schools in Nairobi, seven of them are in Dagoretti South Constituency. It has improved the working status of the National Government Administration Officers (NGAO) by making sure that our people are served in dignified places. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I agree with all the Members who are saying that Articles 95 and 96 allow this House to make laws and no other entity can make laws. If that is the case, then we, as the 13th Parliament, must agree that we are the people who are going to entrench NG- CDF in the Constitution, so that it can continue bettering the lives of members of the public. Finally, Hon. Deputy Speaker, we all agree that even if we have devolved units called counties, those units have devolved more of corruption than services to the people. Nairobi City County receives in excess of Ksh30 billion from the division of revenue and monies that they raise as own revenue. That means that every year in Dagoretti South Constituency, I should be feeling the impact of around Ksh2 billion from Nairobi City County coffers. Yet, if you go to my constituency, what you will find are projects that have been put up by this most visible, best managed, and most effective fund called the NG-CDF. Hon. Deputy Speaker, let us do what is necessary by entrenching NG-CDF in the Constitution…"
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