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    "id": 661579,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/661579/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. M’uthari",
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        "id": 1576,
        "legal_name": "Joseph M'eruaki M'uthari",
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    "content": "I am also glad because we made changes in the CDF Act and came up with the NGCDF, which we are using to fund the projects. Although to a certain extent that will have a disadvantage, aligning the activities of the NGCDF with the Constitution is necessary. It is a good thing to have funds at the local level where Members of Parliament are not directly involved. This will help the people who are appointed through a panel to man the development projects. This will also remove the image of the people where everything is done by the Member of Parliament. People elect the Member of Parliament and then by the end of the day, everything that happens, including responsibility of other people, is executed by the Member of Parliament. Because of the way the NGCDF has been able to touch the lives of very many Kenyans, the areas which had been marginalised and neglected previously by governments have experienced the Government. That is why three years after devolution, when people have challenges at the local level, they do not think about the governor or anybody else, but a Member of Parliament. They believe that their help comes from the Member of Parliament. When they have issues about those functions that are completely devolved, they still ask for the Member of Parliament to intervene. They think that is where the money comes from. Although the new Act which has created this possibility is good, in a way, it also denies the local people the opportunity to identify exactly--- When people have a problem of water, agriculture, health or a dispensary, they do not care where the money comes from. Their interest is whether they have water in their places, a road or a dispensary."
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