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    "content": "The Members that are going to be appointed to these committees are very important. Once they start handling money and there is no accountability, there will be problems. Money can be misappropriated and this might involve inviting agencies such as Criminal Investigation Department (CID) or efficiency monitoring unit and this will consume a lot of time in investigation. I also want to reiterate what some of my colleagues have said, that there is nothing that has benefited our people better than the amount of money allocated for bursaries. Some of our parents are poor and bursaries have come in handy for the students to go to colleges and get higher education. I wanted to mention that even when the National Government Constituencies Development Fund has had challenges, legal or otherwise, it is a fund that Members of this House must secure and protect jealously. If you look at what happened when the Constitution was being drafted, there is devolution, county government, ward, but they forgot about the constituency. The NG-CDF fills that gap. The public does not know what governors and members of the county assembly (MCAs) do, but they know what the Member of the National Assembly does. They hold you responsible for NG-CDF. I would therefore like to ask all of you to make sure that you guard these funds jealously. Even when we leave this House, NG-CDF should remain here so that it can act as a gap between the national Government and the county government. Finally, I would like to say that I want to congratulate Hon. Duale for his position as Leader of the Majority Party. I also want to congratulate many of the Members of the Jubilee side who have won their seats. I hope we will be having very intelligent and reasonable discussions in this House so that we can change the destiny of our country to ensure that we improve the lives of our people. I hope that we will move in as a people who are intelligent and reasonable about our politics and development agenda so that we can then move our country forward. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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