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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Caleb Amisi Luyai",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for Saboti",
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    "content": "Thank you for the applause. I am a man of few words. I believe in actions so I may not speak much. I will circulate my speech to the rest of the Members of Parliament. The full speech will be availed to you. I am a man of action. I realise this is a House of words. I do not want to go into speeches; I will be making my speeches in the course of the rest of the sittings. I do not want to bore our Members here because of speeches that are written down by secretaries. I want to go straight to the Motion. I have a problem particularly with this the National Government Constituencies Development Fund Act. I represent a rural constituency. When you talk of a mheshimiwa, that is a Member of Parliament. That is what the people understand. This idea of county government is still a new concept to them. In fact, when you question about development in your area, they will not talk about the governor, they will talk about mheshimiwa, and “ mheshimiwa” in our language means a Member of Parliament. That is what they are used to. Going forward, when we will be making the Budget, I will request the allocation of the NG-CDF to be increased. In fact, my predecessor went home because of NG-CDF. He is my good friend. A good person, a gentleman but he had to go home because the functions of the NG-CDF were limited. For example, when you promise so many people boreholes and bridges that are dilapidated and you realise NG-CDF is confined to some functions and others are confined to the county government, you will not fulfil those promises.You realise some of our governors are misusing and misappropriating funds.A governor can afford to steal a generator but if an MP tries to steal even a pen, he will be discovered. The focus is on a Member of Parliament. Going forward, we are either given more The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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