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    "id": 768294,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/768294/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Looking at the transformation that CDF has brought to the grassroots development in this country, no one in his or her right senses would dispute that it has made positive contribution. Those of us who are keen to remember the pre-CDF period and post CDF period, even if you do not like the fund, will agree that it has made a contribution in this country. I also know that there are a number of instances and areas where this fund has been misappropriated just like any other fund in this country. We want the institutions like the Office of the Auditor-General and Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) to ensure that funds that are appropriated by this House and voted to implement specific programmes at the grassroots level reach the grassroots. The problem is not with the NG-CDF as it is but it is with county funds. We want to see the billions of shillings that are devolved to the counties. I hope that we will devolve more funds to the counties to spur economic growth. As we do that, we want to ask the management of these funds at the grassroots level and the county level to be alive to the fact that these funds are allocated to help spur economic growth but not to lie in the pockets of a few individuals who are privileged to be in a position to access them."
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