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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Lesrima",
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        "legal_name": "Simon Saimanga Lesirma",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I would like to support this Motion. I want to congratulate the Chairman of the CDF National Management Committee for the Report, particularly for pointing out that in many areas CDF funds have been used to speed up development. The Chairman alluded to experiences his Committee has got from going round the country. He said that in many areas CDF funds were used to implement projects that ought to have been done by the Government many years back. There are cases where CDF funds are used to put up police stations. In my own constituency, I used CDF funds to buy radio communication sets for the police and the District Commissioner. Surely, the role of providing security to Kenyans lies with the central Government but not the CDF. But sometimes we are caught in situations where we have no choice. Things like providing radio communication sets and establishing police stations are a matter of life and death to our people. I hope that this point will be noted by the central Government to make sure that it takes seriously its responsibilities. CDF funds should be used to undertake people-driven projects in rural areas. I want to support proposals to increase the CDF rate from 2.5 per cent to 7.5 per cent. I know that the Minister for Finance will say that the pie is limited, and that there is so much in the kitty. We are not asking for extra funds. We are only asking for reorganisation of that pie, so that funds that now appear under the Constituency Roads Fund are reallocated to the CDF. There are other funds set aside for health and water which can be put into the CDF. I want to support hon. Members who said that the impression created out there is that CDF funds are totally in the hands of the MPs. I think those who read the law governing the CDF know that this is not the case."
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