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    "id": 245466,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/245466/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 138,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Sambu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 137,
        "legal_name": "Alfred B. Wekesa Sambu",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to talk about the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF). Sadly, the Minister says that we will get Kshs10 billion for the CDF. What percentage of the total Budget is this? There will come a day when we shall talk about what happened to our Motion. I do not want to talk about it now. The Kshs10 billion is just about 2.8 per cent of the total Budget. What happens to the 97.2 per cent? We want Kenyans to be told the truth. We would like the CDF percentage to go up to 30 per cent, so that the distribution of resources in this nation will not depend on the wishes of the Central Government. We require the armed forces. However, they are the biggest beneficiary of the Kenyan resources, yet if we go to the Kenya-Uganda border, you will find the people there are suffering, because the forces are doing nothing. Let them go to the border for their military exercises. People are being killed at the northern border. The forces should go to June 28, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1659 practise in that area, so that they can make use of the resources allocated to them. What are they doing in the barracks? We require a standing army, but it should not just sit in the barracks eating, drinking and having fun. Let them go to the field and prevent the disasters which are happening to our Kenyans in the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs). Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to speak about the money which the Minister says he has set aside for the youth, Kshs1.5 billion. As other hon. Members have said, without a clear-cut policy, we should not approve this amount. Before we approve this amount we have to be told how it will be allocated to each district. We want clear-cut guidelines and regulations to be used in allocating the funds to youth groups. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I beg to support conditionally."
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