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    "id": 696302,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. F.K. Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I want to take this opportunity to add my voice to the Public Fundraising Appeals Bill (Senate Bill No.28 of 2014). We have to be clear. We have a problem with fundraising. When we go out there to the constituencies, there are all sorts of fundraising activities. I have just come from my constituency. I have about 20 cards in my in-tray all requesting for fundraising for various things, one of which is funerals. We give out the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) money and people still come back to you for fundraising for students. We must have a way of sorting out these fundraising issues. The best way of doing this, and I hope that we will agree as a House, is that we must have a way of controlling fundraising in this country, some of which is just for personal gain. You are told that the fundraising is for a specific issue only to find that somebody wants to raise money for his personal gain. Therefore, the idea of accounting for whatever you have amassed from fundraising is something that we should be able to deal with. As suggested in the Bill, we should know the purpose of that particular fundraising when raising the money. Sometimes you raise money for a church only for that money to go to a pastor instead of the church. I am sometimes forced to write a cheque in the name of a church only for the members to come back saying that the church does not even have an account. We should tame this exercise. It is a noble idea that was meant to help the people but it is being abused today. Therefore, we should know exactly what you are fundraising for and regulate the same so that when you raise money, you can account for it in the end. That is the only way we can have some discipline in the general public so that people know for what purpose you are raising money. Lastly, this Bill states that at the end of the fundraising, you are supposed show the amount that is required. You must budget for it and have an inspection committee to check whether those funds from that particular fundraising are used for the original purpose. I look forward to having a committee regulating fundraising in this country. It is being abused. The most difficult thing is finding out whether that money raised is meant for that particular project or not. I support the Bill."
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