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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gikaria",
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        "legal_name": "David Gikaria",
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    "content": "One of the areas in which I have a problem with is the board. The problem started recently when the CDF board took the CDF Committees through some seminars and tutorials within the constituencies. The management of the board needs to be questioned by the Chairman of the CDF because I think they misadvised the CDF Committees. When the board chairman goes to some seminar and tells the CDF Committee members that they are gazetted public officers, and that Members of Parliament have no business directing or telling them anything, it creates problems. That is the biggest problem that we started seeing within the constituencies. The training programme started some two months ago. Since then, I have had a lot of problems, including the neighbouring constituencies in my area, where the turnover of fund managers was so much. So, maybe, the Chairman of the CDFC may need to sit down with the CDF board and tell them the importance of them passing over the right messages to the CDFC on the ground. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to agree with what hon. Wamalwa said. After the election of the five representatives from every ward, we were supposed to pick one person from the local administration. Of course, when they were reading the programme, they were saying: “We are part and parcel of this Committee.” One of the problems that the Committee needs to look at as they propose amendments to the regulations is to give directions as to what happens to the four people who were left out after one of them was elected member of the CDF board. I concur with the Joint Committee; the development aspect of the CDF has been improved. I want to agree with the Committee on the proposal to enhance the allocation of 2.5 per cent of national revenue to the CDF. If we raise it as proposed, the least that a constituency can get is Kshs100 million. I want to believe that this will go a long way in improving the lives of people. As it has been indicated, over 70 per cent of the CDF money goes towards education. That is why we should provide more money to the CDF. We will have educated communities at the constituency-level, which will in turn support the development efforts of this country. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as regards the issue of re-election, I totally agree with the Committee but it should be modified. I was recently reading a newspaper where a Member of Parliament had some issues with the IEBC. There was a by-election but he never came back to Parliament. By then he had already picked his CDF Committee. When the new Member of Parliament was elected, he tried to change the management of the CDF. That is where the two Committees came in. It is important that they have come up with a way of enabling hon. Members to have regime change. Of course, it has been indicated in the Constitution that if a governor is kicked out through an electioneering process, he goes out with his entire executive. You can imagine coming in as a new governor with an existing executive, over which you have no control. So, I want to concur with the Joint Committee on that aspect. I do not want to belabour what has already been spoken to. I totally agree that the signatories of the CDF need to be The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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