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    "id": 1572052,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kwanza, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ferdinand Wanyonyi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for the lovely opportunity. First and foremost, I want to thank the two Members, Hon. Chepkonga and Hon. Otiende, for coming up with this Bill so we can entrench NGCF in the Constitution. A lot has been said about this. The ones opposing NG-CDF, NGAAF and SOF are those who stay in Nairobi. They do not go back home so they do not know what is happening there. I met one of them, a very senior lawyer and I asked him how he was doing. He said, that he has not gone back home for a while to see exactly what NG-CDF and NGAAF has done. This is an opportunity for this House to entrench these Funds in the Constitution. Let us forget about the noise being made out there. Those people do not know what they are talking about. They are talking for the sake of it and to make their presence felt. Some of them are very senior lawyers. Without NG-CDF, it means we will go back to holding harambees to support school children. Parents will be asking Members of Parliament to support their children. NG-CDF has already taken care of this. I do not get involved at all in its management. All I do is oversight. The Fund has done a very good job. It is broad based even the sub-county commissioner is involved. The NG-CDF committee is very representative. I come from Trans-Nzoia a small county in Kenya. We have had good representation and have done a lot. Go to Kwanza or any constituencies in this country and see what NG-CDF has done. In the absence of NG-CDF, we will go back to harambees to build classrooms and toilets. With NG-CDF, all you need to do is to get information from the school committee about what they want. Some people want NG-CDF to go to counties. It is a joke. In my county, there is no construction of ECDE classes. What does this mean? You will be enabling the governors to use the money as they want. There are have been cases in court where they have been accused of misusing money. In fact, as we are talking, my governor is in trouble because of misuse of money. Assuming you take away NG-CDF from five constituencies in the county. What will you get? Nothing but court cases. Hon. Temporary Speaker, let us entrench these Funds in the Constitution. We are not begging anybody; it is our right. We want to avoid the problems we have had in the past like"
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