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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nairobi City County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Esther Passaris",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, but I cannot be ignorant of what happened in my county yesterday and in the country at large. As legislators and representatives of the people, it would be remiss of me not to offer condolences to all the people that lost their loved ones and continue to lose their loved ones because the civil society cannot hold itself and its horses. The political wing is also trying to undermine the country. As I stand here, I speak as a patron of NGAAF. I have seen all these Funds - NGAAF and NG-CDF - being riddled with many court battles and the thing is nobody wants to understand the impact these Funds have on the society. I came to know about NG-CDF when I first came to Parliament. The late Hon. Ken Okoth had invited me to Kibra Constituency where he was opening a school funded by NG-CDF. It was not him who had funded. So, as Member of Parliament he ensured that NG-CDF for Kibra was used for the job that it was allocated. He ensured that the desired standards were observed. The committee members and NG-CDF board members oversaw the fund. Therefore, they owned the school construction project. As the area Member of Parliament, he only gave leadership. I am the patron of NGAAF in Nairobi County and I receive a lot of money for various votes. One of the votes is the county wide vote. When the committee members realised that there was an increase of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV), they decided to save the money. We bought land and the money is being used to put up the first county owned safe house in Nairobi County. That could not have happened if we left everything to the governors and the Executive. Nobody had thought of building a safe house in Nairobi. I have seen a number of county women representatives building safe houses and rehabilitation centres. Therefore, these gaps are being addressed by this Fund. During the COVID-19 scourge, the mama-fuas came to us complaining that they could not go into clients houses to wash clothes and their businesses were going down. The NGAAF Committee sat and decided to create stations for them to operate from. We equipped the stations with washing machines, driers and ironing boards so that they could conduct their businesses. That gap that was bridged by NGAAF. There are so many other projects 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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