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    "id": 610263,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/610263/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chanzu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 11,
        "legal_name": "Yusuf Kifuma Chanzu",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. I also want to thank mhe Gumbo for bringing up this issue. It has been with all of us, but it required one of us to bring it up. It is important that we have the Kamukunji tomorrow, so that we can air our views. This could be an eye opener and our colleagues here will float their ideas. In 2003, the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) came into existence. It is now 12 years and a lot has been achieved. The biggest problem now is that we are trying to do a comparison. Somebody made comments on air in one of the FM stations. I told him that we get Kshs 60million or Kshs70 million per year, and if you go to the constituencies, you will find a toilet, a classroom, or a school bus, all courtesy of the CDF. We have been having these county governments with billions of shillings, but there is nothing you can see that they have come up with, save for graders that you will see on sites as they try to construct roads. This is because, with roads, procurement is very easy. Somebody just sits down and says that so-and-so is going to do this job for Kshs20 million or Kshs30 million. It is for this reason that we are saying that this issue of CDF must be thought of very 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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