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    "id": 1514198,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) James Nyikal",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. No single Government fund has had the impact that those three devolved funds have had, particularly the NG-CDF. There is no single constituency in this country in the area of education where you cannot find classrooms that have been built by that Fund. There is no single constituency where you cannot find a number of students, now even professionals, who have become professionals because of the bursary that, that Fund gives. There is no other fund that the people have access to like the NG-CDF. When a school burns down, or the wind blows the roof off, the people merely approach the Chair of NG-CDF, and within a week, some action is taken. There is no single Government fund that I know of that people have access to, such as that Fund. There is no fund that I know of that practices the principle of public participation. Long before people started talking about public participation, NG-CDF was in the thick of public participation. That is where the involvement of Members of Parliament is. As leaders in the constituencies, we must take part in public participation when those funds are being disbursed or the proposals are being made for their disbursement. No fund has been as cost-effective as that one. When ECDE classrooms are done by county or national Government or the Ministry of Education, the cost is almost twice what we have here. The claim that it violates the separation of powers or those that are found by the High Court to be so is not true. We just have public participation and oversee it like any other fund. As I end, if something helps the people, that is the basic issue that any effort in Government should be. If we find a principle that helps the people, why do we want to kill it? Then let us just change the law. The law does not mention. All they want is for it to be in the Constitution. Then let it be so. I support."
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