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    "content": "Hon. Members, I had allocated 30 minutes to this matter but we have now done one hour. We have the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Hon. Duale, waiting behind here to deal with issues and challenges related to the Social Health Authority (SHA). There are many questions lined up. I want to encourage you, Hon. Members, that the Cabinet Secretary has responded to our call and has spoken to us candidly. You should remember that as we push, there are others also pushing. As your Speaker, I will ensure that, through our administration in Parliament, every word that the Cabinet Secretary has said to the House will be fulfilled. You have also said that you will send Ksh7 billion on or before the 29th of this month. If it is earlier, the better. That is if things work well. On NGAAF for our Women Representatives, it is this House that reduced your money. In the Budget and Appropriations Committee, there are women. Why they did not resist or call for help is a story for another day, but we will encourage Hon. Atandi because the cream that has been removed from that Fund is very small. I encourage him to put it back in the next cycle, so that Women Representatives can at least resume from where they were as we look forward to the economy improving and giving them more. I say this because I have been in this House with you. I know how prudently resources, through the constituencies, are managed as opposed to other management centres that you know. I encourage you that the little you will receive is better than nothing. We encourage the Cabinet Secretary to do much more. Going forward, Cabinet Secretary, as you have committed, try to avoid the jam of January, February and March by dealing with issues at a time when you have better latitude to ensure that what the NG-CDF does continues. Hon. Members, you have gone to court to argue that this is not your money, and I agree with you. It is the money of the people of Kenya, whom you represent. This money is managed by committees that are independent of you. I do not want anybody to pick up The Hansard and rush to court claiming that Members of Parliament have now said they control the NG-CDF. That is how your detractors have been fighting you. The money comes to your constituencies, and it is managed by committees. It benefits the people you represent. You only come back to oversee that money, which is why reports are brought here. Let us leave it there. We thank Hon. Jack Wamboka for raising the issue. I appreciate the enthusiasm that you have all demonstrated in bringing out the salient issues that are pressing Kenyans. Hon. Mbadi, you have been here. You have managed a constituency, and you know what the NG- CDF has done and can do. I was here before the NG-CDF came into being. I am here during The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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