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    "id": 1571992,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitutu Masaba, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Clive Gisairo",
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    "content": "Many Members have said that Members of Parliament are not party to the NG-CDF. We are elected to perform three key roles: oversight, legislate, and represent. We have a hand in the NG-CDF by virtue of representation. The 350,000 people of Kitutu Masaba will not face the fund manager, all of them at once. That is why they have elected me as their leader to listen to and represent them in different forums. I, therefore, play my role to represent them. They have a vision, but the 350,000 of them cannot present that vision. You, therefore, as a Member of Parliament, are the vision carrier for your people. We will, therefore, continue playing our role of representing our people to the Board and the Constituency Development Fund Committees (CDFCs). I sit in the Select Committee on the National Government Constituencies Development Fund, and if there is a Fund that is properly structured, it is this Fund. The money goes to the Board, the Board sends the money to the constituencies' CDFC's main account. From there, the money does not go to the contractor. It goes to the project management committee account, which has a representation of the local community where the project is going to be done. The members of that community are the signatories. This is the Fund that reaches the poor. It is the Fund that speaks the language of the poor. Today, while we talk here, we are not talking as Members of Parliament. We are carrying the voices of the millions of people we represent."
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