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    "id": 610256,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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    "content": "in Kenya which is more powerful than CDF today. I recall an incident when we met a delegation from Botswana who had come to study the CDF structure here, and as we were concluding the leader of the delegation jokingly said that he hoped the person who came up with the idea of CDF, that is Senator (Eng.) Muriuki Karue, was one of the most decorated Kenyans because he thought it was a very brilliant idea. Such a powerful development idea which has directly impacted millions of lives cannot be discarded merely because of a few correctable structural and procedural lapses. The problem with the CDF has always been that there is partly the wrongly held notion that the CDF is a fund for Members of Parliament. Perish the thought: The CDF is a fund for the people of Kenya. As we stand here today, it would be more difficult to find a village in Kenya which has not been touched by the CDF in the ten years that it has been existence. I have sat in the Departmental Committee on CDF for the seven years I have been privileged to be in this House throughout. In one of our field tours, we found constituencies in this country which did not have a single girls’ school before the CDF came. Some of them now have four or five girls’ schools. We found cases and testimonies of very poor children who could not have gone to school had it not been for CDF. This is just but a background. I have seen and you had advised us and I have looked at some of the areas that the court had been asked to look into and one of the areas that the court was concerned about is that when the Act was passed, the Senate was not involved. I sat in this House in the early part of 2013. In fact, the CDF Act was passed at just around midnight because it was that important to Members of Parliament. At that time it was just not possible to involve the Senate because they were not there. It did not exist. The other area that the court has talked about---"
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