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    "id": 1556970,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichungwah",
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    "content": "castigating a former Speaker because you are also there as a Temporary Speaker today. He says that NG-CDF is a corrupt, illegal and unconstitutional slush fund to enrich Members of Parliament, their families and cronies unjustly. He says it should, therefore, be scrapped, yet he served in this House as a Speaker, presiding over 349 Members, and also strongly defended that Fund while he served in this House. Today, he is annoyed that we have given a Notice of Motion to appoint a Member of Parliament for Mbeere North as the Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Public Service and Human Capital Development. If you are annoyed with that, please spare the rest of the country from your anger and bile. You sat here as a Speaker for 10 years and justified the existence of the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF). However, simply because today you are not a Cabinet Secretary and your Member of Parliament has been promoted to a Cabinet Secretary, you have started taking your bile to the rest of the country and this House. It is embarrassing, shameful, and uncalled for. I advise the culprits to cool down and relax. There is life beyond public service. The day any one of us is not a Member of Parliament here or not in a position as a Cabinet Secretary, Speaker, or even chief, there is life beyond that. You can graze your goats and cattle and rear your pigs like me. Those doing poultry, like His Excellency Hon. William Ruto, can also do it, and all will be happy. You do not have to be bitter with your son. From one end of the mouth, you seem to be speaking for your son, who is, I think, 50 years old. From the other end of the mouth, you are so bitter with another one of your sons from Mbeere North who has been appointed as a Cabinet Secretary that you are now deriding the entire House in a system of NG-CDF that has worked for the last almost 25 years. In this affront against NG- CDF, Dr Boniface Makokha must ensure that NG-CDF not only continues to exist but is well- resourced. NG-CDF is not for Members of Parliament. I can do my representation, oversight, and legislative work very well as a Member of Parliament without NG-CDF. But I know some children in my Kikuyu Constituency would otherwise not be in school today were it not for NG-CDF."
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