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    "id": 1514256,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1514256/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kinangop, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kwenya Thuku",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Zachary Kwenya Thuku",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I wish in a very special way to emphatically support this proposal. I cannot wait for the day that we are going to discuss the entrenchment of this Bill into the Constitution, so that we can have a constitutional provision where the NG-CDF is entrenched. For the last 20 years since the introduction of the Constituency Development Fund (CDF), we know the kind of exploits it has done in our constituencies. Some of the Members sitting here today are here because they got an enabler through education, through that Fund that we so celebrate. I fault the drafters of our Constitution 2010 because were it not for experiment or trying to reinvent the wheel, we should have devolved our Government to the constituency level. Such that we have 290 devolved units of government and do away with the county governments. All we did with the devolution that we introduced was reinvent the wheel and bring about very expensive units that are becoming very difficult to run and oversight. We also get some constitutional moments whereby we should think of disbanding the county governments and having those units as constituencies. Constituencies are very efficient because we only spend 6 per cent of the fund on the management of the same. NG-CDF is here to stay and no court of good standing should pronounce that Fund as unconstitutional. What is of public interest should be given first preference."
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