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    "id": 471072,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Ghati",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Dennitah Ghati",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to support the Motion and thank the committee. This Report is for the good of this country, it is not about the current Members of Parliament but also about those who will come after them. So, we have the best interest of this country at heart. By looking at the budget ceiling of CDF, if there is a fund in this country that even a child would tell you about, it is the CDF. I have grown knowing CDF and gone to school through CDF and seen projects funded by it. By saying that we want to add and put a ceiling of Kshs.100 million to every constituency, it is for the interest and better of our constituency and for any person who aspires to be an MP. Everyone who looks at this proposal will definitely support it for the development of our various constituencies. I am taking an issue with the CDF fund managers I want to agree with my colleagues here that they have become some mini-MPs. These are people who actually want to be seen as MPs. Our constituents know them as people who control the money and you find that they do not have respect for the current MP. What reason is there, for example, for a person seconded to your constituency not to report to you? You are the Chief Executive Officer of your constituency and anybody who is in your constituency has to report to you and also to the board. I want to agree that some form of vetting and appraisal should be there. Members of the Committee should appraise the CDF fund managers for purposes of letting that person also be inter dem with developments that are happening in the constituencies. I want to also suggest that even members of CDFC at some point should have some minimum qualifications, so that they are able to understand what these funds are and what they are managing. That way, fund managers will not take CDFC members for granted because we have seen this happening. They are not paid sitting allowance, if it is there and they do not understand what is happening. We want to have a situation where CDFC members are able to have minimum qualifications and not just some sycophants who do not understand rules and procedures of CDF. With those few reasons, I want to support this Report and thank the two committees. Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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