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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ndiritu",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Mathenge Ndiritu",
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    "content": "have been assured by the Mover of the Motion, there is enough money for the financial year. So, we look forward for fast disbursement. The Board has also done a good job and we have been able to relate with them very well. The new model of NGCDF 2016 has put life and distanced the day to day administration of the fund from the Member of Parliament hence avoiding the noise we used to hear. For those people who have been making a lot of noise about NGCDF and those who have been going to court, it is the effect of the NGCDF that has always scared them. Today whenever most of the people in our constituencies think of any development, they never mind whether we are in the devolved era where many functions have been removed from the NGCDF. Today, their first stop when they want to do a project, is at NGCDF or at the Member of Parliament’s place. That shows that whatever NGCDF has been doing has been recognised and people appreciate it as the best avenue to solve their problems. Secondly, the management of NGCDF gives the local people the opportunity to manage the funds themselves. The project management committees are a way of empowering the local people down in the village. They come up with their project and they are able to have funds and manage them. I always tell them not to look at the MP or those in high places if they cannot take care of the few millions that they have been given through NGCDF. Do not point at a speck in a Member of Parliament’s eye and yet there is a log in your eye. So, it is a good idea. In the last three years we have done four bridges, those that the county or national Government would have taken years to build. It is just a matter of a single public participation, money is disbursed and we have the citizen’s problem solved. It is the best and the fastest way that the citizenry is able to get development and problems solved. I, therefore, support this Motion wholeheartedly and would even go on to say: “Long live NGCDF.” Thank you."
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