{"id":20397,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/20397/?format=json","text_counter":750,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Oparanya","speaker_title":"The Minister for Planning, National Development and Vision 2030","speaker":{"id":201,"legal_name":"Wycliffe Ambetsa Oparanya","slug":"wycliffe-oparanya"},"content":"Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, on the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF), I have had opportunity of moving around to various constituencies. As at now, we propose to make new proposals. I would advise Members to make sure that they try as much as possible to complete the projects that they had proposed last financial year. I have visited some constituencies and you find that the Committee that deals with the CDF at the constituency level distributes this money very thinly. You find a school has been given Kshs150,000 to build a classroom, another school has been given Ksh50,000 to build a classroom and so on. This is a new project. This means that it will take you several years to complete that particular project. So, I would request that, please, the allocation that we have got today, make sure that your target is to complete the existing projects."}