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    "speaker_name": "The Member for Seme",
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    "content": "whether the NG-CDF will start working effectively as it should. Therefore, these issues need to be relooked. The names of the nominees to various constituency committees of NG-CDF which we passed a few weeks ago have not been gazetted. There is also a considerable delay of releasing funds not only for the Financial Year 2017/2018 but also for 2016/2017. The faster this is done, the better. Comments have been made and I agree with both Hon. Olago and Hon. Lessonet that the court ruling was referring to the old Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) which has been repealed and therefore has no consequences except for a few areas. In fact, I discussed this with the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of NG-CDF. The ruling has given us more opportunity. When we go for harmonisation as has been indicated we should take advantage of this and relook at the NG-CDF Act. The activists are spirited public figures as you have said and they have presented many court suits relating to NG- CDF. This is not helping much because what they are doing is driving a spirit of adversarial relationship between the county governments and the national Government. This in my mind is absolutely unnecessary. The CDF Act, 2015 put a very clear separation between the Member of Parliament and the CDF Committee. The approval of names of nominees to various constituency committees was not being done before. The CDF had a panel which sat in the absence of the MP to appoint two people to represent him in the Board and that panel would pick two committee members. Once the committee members were picked they would choose their own officials. The involvement of MPs which we are doing is driving unnecessary competition between the national Government and county governments. These are two governments which are serving the same people. Article 189 and Schedule Six of the Constitution have clearly indicated the relationship between the national Government and the county governments. We can use this to solve the issues of NG-CDF, instead of going to court over and over, which is not necessary. The impact of NG-CDF is clear for everybody to see. It is one of the Government institutions with the lowest overhead expenditure, compared to parastatals and ministries. Shilling by shilling NG-CDF is doing a commendable job in this country. There is need to fast track so that when the Committee is in place it relooks into both old and new Acts and the court ruling which will give us a more robust Act to use. Thank you."
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