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    "content": "Richard Momoima Onyonka): Thank you, Hon. Speaker. First of all, I want to say that it is an honour for you to allow me to interupt normal procedure in the House for the simple reason that I have not been given my card. That was simply because I was sworn in yesterday. I also wanted to say that I am actually quite happy to be in this House once again, for the third time. I have just been here for 15 years. I hope it will be the last I am going to be in this House. The Motion that has been introduced here, for me, is a very interesting Motion. One, I support it. I have listened to the contributions of my friends and I want to make a few points so that some of them can understand where it is. I am the only MP in this House who had a case in court for nine years because of the CDF. The argument at that time was that I had misused public money. But, I want to inform my friend who is shouting from the other side that I won the case and somebody is going to pay me handsomely. I did not pilfer the money and I did not misuse the moeny. It was a political case. So, I am informing my colleagues in this House that you must understand that NG-CDF is a political Fund. Even when the law says that you are not involved, you will be held responsible when the Fund is misused. Two, I wanted to tell my colleagues in this House that I am actually in this House because of the NG-CDF. Kitutu Chache South Constituency is one of the best NG-CDF-utilising constituencies in Kenya. I am actually number two in Nyanza. If you see the projects we have done, you will be proud of them. The voters of Kitutu Chache South Constituency voted for me overwhelmingly because of that development history. I would like to persuade my colleagues in this House that, as Mheshimiwa Mbadi stated here, if you misuse that money or if you have anything to do with its misuse or the public gets an impression that you have had anything to do with the misuse of that money, you will not come back to this House. The reason is that the public is very sensitive. The NG-CDF is amongst the best Funds in this country. History will be very kind to former President Kibaki as the person who introduced this Fund; with the other colleagues who were in this Parliament. It is a Fund that has done Kenyans proud. The problem that many of my colleagues may not understand is that the Fund has issues with procurement. You have to be very careful to follow procurement rules and regulations. On occasions, we have had to substep some of those regulations to implement. You are aware procurement rules and regulations have certain issues which up to now are quite substantive. Once you elect and the public selects the committee members and the committee members are able to work diligently with you, the public will always reward you because of your oversight role and the work you do and they will appreciate. I also heard my colleague Mr. Mbadi, the Leader of Minority say that he does not understand why people buy buses. The truth is, once I was done with most of my secondary schools, I had to buy about 21 buses for my schools. The teachers are very happy about it. The next thing I want to do is, now I am moving to my primary schools and I intend to make sure that all the 42 primary schools I have will have mini buses. For us who come from the rural areas our students and children need to travel to Nairobi, Mombasa and other places so that they are exposed as Kenyans, so that the environment they are in is not necessarily where they were condemned to stay permanently. I can tell you that when these buses were bought, some of my schools did very well in their performance. In other words, there was motivation and the teachers and students were very happy about it. 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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