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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "South Mugirango, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Silvanus Osoro",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. This is one of the rare moments when I remove the hat of the Chief Whip of the Majority Party and speak as the Member for South Mugirango Constituency. The NG-CDF affects us all regardless of which side of the political divide we come from. It is something that all Member hold close their hearts. As Hon. Elachi has said, I want to set the record straight that some money has been released to the Board. I hear Ksh30 million is supposed to be sent to each constituency in the course of the week. But that is not the point. The issue is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the NG-CDF. When Mr Yusuf was acting as the CEO in the last Parliament before this House approved him. He was very competent, approachable, reachable and easily available to Members. He would listen to us. I do not know what happened to him immediately he was confirmed. The gentleman has changed and became something else. Some of the questions the Members are asking could easily be answered by the CEO of the Board, but he is no longer available to Members. He has turned out to be too big for Members to access him. He is presumably even over-running the Board. The question is not even the provision or the availability of funds. Even the approval of the proposals has not been done even after the release of the Ksh30 million. Therefore, the amount does not have expenditure votes. We cannot spend it. We will have it in the accounts, but the fund managers will tell you that the proposals have not been approved and, therefore, they are waiting for the approvals from Nairobi because the Board has not sat. That is the question. We need to re-direct our energy to where our pain comes from. The pain comes from the NG-CDF Board and the CEO. When we reconstitute the committees on Wednesday, 4th March 2025, we need to summon them to appear before this House."
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