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    "content": "the name of poverty eradication support to some of the facilities that have been put up by even the teachers. You find that you have teachers SACCOS which have projects of putting up maybe a bank but you are tied. You cannot just put this money into that group because it is called a SACCO. So, there should be some flexibility in the Fund's management. Mr. Speaker, Sir, like I said, this money is not enough. Maybe it should have been left open, instead of saying \"moving the CDF funds from 2.5 per cent to 7.5 per cent of the revenue in the Exchequer\" we should say \"at least 7.5 per cent\" so that this is left for future adjustments relative to the returns from the different constituencies on how the management of the funds has been carried out by Members of Parliament. Let me say here that the CDF is not a Members' Fund. This is an erroneous impression that has been projected by the Press to the people. The Members of Parliament are patrons to the Fund and, indeed, the chairmen as per the Act. This should be understood and not to be trivialised that now Members of Parliament want to increase the CDF funds because they want to buy vehicles. No! Indeed, I would not want the Act to tie Members of Parliament on what to do with a certain percentage of these funds. If a Member of Parliament thinks that he or she needs a vehicle to supervise his work, he has the mandate of the committee but in my constituency I would not use my funds for that. I have more than enough that needs these funds other than being dictated to by the CDF in the Act that some of this money should be channelled into buying vehicles. However, the idea of building a CDF office is of paramount importance. Sometime ago, we had Kshs1 million being allocated to support the CDF office construction. There was a lot of hullabaloo from the Press. I beg that they do understand that the CDF office will not only be for the CDF money but we have a lot of constituency functions like the constituency funds, the Member of Parliament's office, the Constituency AIDS Committees (CACs) and so on. So, I think we need a centralised office where most of the constituency issues can be managed from for easy management. I support this Committee's Report. Thank you."
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