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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kipyegon",
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        "legal_name": "Johana Ngeno Kipyegon",
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    "content": "hospitals. Teachers also went on strike and schools were closed. Suppose those schools were hospitals, how many people would have died? Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I wish to support this Bill majorly because we do not want to burn the counties or the national Government. The money that goes to the constituencies is for cushioning these people. Supposing this money was not there, what would have happened? We would have been waiting in vain. My county government has not managed to build even a single toilet in my constituency. Suppose this money was not there, what would have happened? There has been a tug of war between the urban and the rural areas. Most activists are found in the urban areas, and they do not understand the plight and the problems facing the people in the villages. That is why sometimes they ask why we need the CDF. There is nothing to build in the urban areas. They have hospitals, roads and schools, but in the villages we have nothing. We have no roads, hospitals and schools. When I took over my constituency, most of the primary school children were studying under trees. As I speak, I have a permanent classroom in almost every primary school. When I took over, I had only nine secondary schools, but today, I am a proud Member with 24 secondary schools. We never had a single girls’ school and Hon. Tonui can bear me witness, because he was a principal in one of the schools in my constituency. Today, I have over five girls’ secondary schools in my constituency, courtesy of the CDF. When somebody goes to court thinking that this money is there for nothing, we do not feel good. We want to tell these Kenyans that there are Kenyans in the villages who want development. There are Kenyans in the villages who cannot access what we access in Nairobi, Nakuru and other urban areas. I wish to support. I wish to ask the Chairman to fast-track this Bill. I urge the Members to pass this Bill before we go home. The President needs to sign into law this Bill before we go home. We want to go home knowing that the CDF will live on. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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