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    "id": 272932,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ngugi",
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        "legal_name": "David Mwaniki Ngugi",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand to support the Committee in appointing Boniface as a member of the Constituency Development Fund Board. I would like to say this: Committees do a lot of work. Time and again, they have delved into details and examined people. When they bring the report here, we, sometimes, do not support them. I think it is only fair that when committees have done so much work that we support them. I wish to state that the CDF is one of the special funds provided for under the Public Finance Bill which is now before the House. The CDF is a tool that has developed this country beyond any reasonable measure. It is a tool that should continue. Even when I become a Governor, I will still want Members of Parliament to have their CDF because the functions that are left to the county government are different from those of the national Government. If you look at the CDF, you will realize that it has helped in building schools, police posts and so on. Those are also the functions of the national Government. So, if the CDF continues to exist, then as a Governor I will not have to worry about building of schools, police posts and so on. That is because the Member of Parliament will take care of those functions while I, as the Governor, will take care of agriculture, animal husbandry, licencing of dogs and all the other functions of the county government."
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