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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nakara",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Lodepe Nakara",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The work of Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) cannot be by-passed by anybody. In this country, CDF is only comparable to M-Pesa . The sectors that are going to be affected if this CDF is eliminated include education. In Turkana County, where I come from, if it were not for CDF, it would have taken us another 30 to 40 years to be where we are now. Because of the CDF, I found few projects which were done in very remote areas, where certain types of vehicles cannot reach. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there are bursaries from CDF. You know we are pastoralists and we depend on livestock. Without CDF, people sold all their livestock to take their children to national schools or colleges. The CDF helped our people to pay their school fees, hence be able to take their children to school. In terms of infrastructure, classes, dormitories, laboratories and much more are done by CDF. In my constituency, a former Member of Parliament built a secondary 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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