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"content": "operations of NG-CDF. The same applies to NGAAF. As a County Women Representative, I do not run NGAAF. I am just a patron; I am just an oversight authority for NGAAF. I make sure that all the money that has been allocated for NGAAF is used for that purpose. I ensure that the percentages that are allocated for women's economic empowerment are used for that particular purpose and that the money that has been ringfenced for bursaries and scholarships is used for that particular purpose. I am in full support of the entrenchment of NGAAF and NG-CDF because the importance of the two Funds cannot be gainsaid. Before NGAAF and NG-CDF came in, for instance, in my county, there were no direct empowerment projects that went to the people. But with NGAAF, that needs to be entrenched in this Constitution, we now have members of the community: women, youth, persons living with disabilities and other vulnerable groups able to access funds for empowerment. We find groups in the villages like the Momba Boda Boda Group in Tinderet, which has Ksh300,000 that they can use to better their operations as operators in the boda boda sector. The Oasis Women Group in Kabiyet can now run their businesses, invest in business, get income and have money in their pockets, courtesy of the same NGAAF. Today, Nandi County boasts of more than 700,000 seedlings of Kahawa that have been given out under the Mama na Kahawa Programme. The programme, in the next three years, will bear proper fruit; we will see fewer people going to the NG-CDF and NGAAF offices to look for funds because they will pay their school fees. This is equity that we have always looked for and have wanted to see in every aspect of this life. I cannot give enough accolades to NG-CDF. For me to be here today, I am a product of the NG-CDF. I got a bursary from the Emgwen office, then, in 2012. I appreciate what NG-CDF did for me and for other vulnerable children who need and require education. When we walk around the constituencies that we come from, we can tell where we are courtesy of the branding that is done under NG-CDF. One can know whether they are in Emgwen, Likuyani, or Msambweni. One will know where they are courtesy of projects that have been done by NG-CDF. I am in total support of the entrenchment of the Funds in the Constitution so that they can continue giving services to people and continue being important to the people of Kenya. We are not doing this because we are Members of Parliament today. I can assure Hon. Members that in September 2027, during the swearing-in, I will not be in this House, but NG-CDF and NGAAF must be in this House so that they can serve the people of Kenya, post-me and you, Hon. Temporary Speaker who are sitting in this House. So, we are not doing this for ourselves, but we are doing it for the people of Kenya, we are doing it for the children, women, youth, and People with Disabilities (PwDs) of Kenya so, that these Funds can live beyond any Member and any person who gets an opportunity to sit in this House. Hon. Temporary Speaker, with those very many remarks, I support the entrenchment of NG-CDF, NGAAF, and the Senate Oversight Fund into the Constitution of Kenya so that we can stop running battles in courts with the people who like going to court and deliver services to the people of Kenya."
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