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    "id": 366996,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, Sir, I will raise my voice. What the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee is doing is not just a duty to hon. Members, but to Kenyans. I happen to have been in the CDF Committee during the 10th Parliament and now the 11th Parliament. I have evidence that the CDF has, indeed, made a difference in the whole country. There is a saying that when you get rid of what you know to be working in pursuit of what you do not know, then you know what you are losing but you do not know what you are looking for. There has been a lot of argument that with money being transferred to the counties, perhaps, there is no need for CDF. I beg to differ. Most of our counties are still in their infancy. From what I hear from my colleagues a lot of the budgets that have been done at the county level actually do not target development as such. Over the weekend, I was with some colleagues who happened to come from counties other than mine. They told me something about the budget processing in some of the counties. To say the least, it is atrocious. We know that the CDF has done a lot. It has created industries at the constituency level. It has tackled unemployment and so on. We have had problems, but this is the challenge that we have as hon. Members, and we should see how we can confront these problems. Even the worst critics of CDF give it a score card of over 85 per cent, which is very high, indeed. I want to thank the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. I think it was something close to spiritual inspiration that he was able to listen to the voice of hon. Members. Hon. Speaker, Sir, I sit on this Committee. It is good also to sometimes look at areas where we could be failing. There are some constituencies I know of that have not utilized their 2010/2011 budget. It is incumbent upon us to try and encourage each other. When you do not utilize what is allocated to your constituency, it is actually the constituents who suffer. With those few remarks I beg to support the amendment."
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