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    "id": 768334,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mule",
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Mutinda Mule",
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    "content": "As a Member of Parliament, you must provide oversight within your constituency to enable prudent use of money within that constituency. It is most important to know that if there is a devolved function which is working and the common mwananchi is appreciating, it is the NG-CDF. One thing we need to do as Members of Parliament is to find a way of increasing that allocation. This is the money you can oversee and it is going directly to the electorate. We have been given a room here by the courts to harmonise the 2013 and the 2015 Acts. I will be proposing amendments to increase the allocation of NG-CDF to make sure that we are able to reach every corner of our constituency without thinking of governors and the national Government. The NG-CDF is the only fund which recognises that low income Kenyan who cannot take their kids to school. Funds are limited. Members of Parliament, you cannot cater for all the families in your constituency. We must increase the allocation to this fund. We are complaining here that governors are misappropriating funds at the county government, yet we know very well that we can increase the money for NG-CDF in this House and create a proper oversight for the same money to benefit Kenyans. As we support this Motion, I urge the NG-CDF Board and the National Treasury to release the arrears of the NG-CDF for 2016/2017 and make arrangements to ensure that we have this money even before we go on recess. I support Hon. Wandayi. For Members of Parliament who are new, by January, every parent will be in your doorstep. The only saviour we have is to have NG-CDF money to give these parents money for bursaries to take their kids back to college. It is important we realised our role as oversight but it should not be misunderstood by Kenyans that we do not have any role on how to deal and give direction in our constituencies. We have been elected by Kenyans to give direction in those constituencies. If you have been elected by over 60 per cent, Kenyans down there expect you to give direction. It is high time this House rose above board and made sure that NG-CDF is strengthened. The allocation must be increased and we do oversight without fear or favour of anybody in our constituencies. I support."
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