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    "id": 603834,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. J.N. Chege",
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        "legal_name": "John Njoroge Chege",
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    "content": "in every village trying to construct cattle dips, schools and dispensaries, which was a function of the Government. Since the introduction of the CDF, this country is well served in terms of schools, health centres and many facilities which were lacking before. Before I was elected the Member of Parliament for Kasarani, three wards in the constituency, namely, Kasarani, Clay City and Mwiki did not have a single secondary school since the creation of the universe. Thanks to the CDF, each ward has now a new secondary school. We have enrolled more than 150 students in each school within a year. What would have happened to those children without CDF? Without CDF, we would still have the mud walled classrooms that we used to see around. The transformation that has been brought up by the CDF requires the people who went to court to sit back and ask themselves what issues they had with the development of this country. We thought that by devolving funds to the county governments, most of our problems would be sorted out. However, most of the projects that you see in the country are done by the CDF. I wish we could even change the Constitution to put the CDF in it, so that we can have development. I am worried because what is remaining in our health centres, the county governments are taking up that mandate. The CDF caters for the least, namely, the constituency. It goes to the ward and every ward must get a share of the money to do a project. I thought that CDF is part of devolution. The only problem is that it was not included in the Constitution. With the current clamour for change and trying to rectify the 20 per cent of the Constitution 2010 which was not good, I am hoping that this House will anchor the CDF into the Constitution, so that we can cover bigger areas than what we are covering. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support the Bill."
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