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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wangwe",
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    "content": "the Majority Party to move with speed and ensure that this small number is gazetted as soon as possible. I have been impressed by the manner in which both the Leader of Minority Party and the Members of the other side have responded to this. This has shown one major issue, that is affecting our course. We must align ourselves with the 2015 NG-CDF Act and the 2013 CDF Act. I want to challenge the other side; this can only be done through the NG-CDF Committee. Once the Committee is constituted, we are able to address what is affecting the whole flow of the fund. I direct my concern to the Chief Whips of both the Minority and Majority side. Let them give us the Committees where we are going to address this issue. The other thing that I have to raise concerning NG-CDF is the ability to disburse funds. The 2016/2017 disbursement of funds is not complete among the 290 constituencies. I urge the NG-CDF Board and the Treasury to make sure that they disburse the funds on time. We are late, we are now discussing issues of 2017/2018, yet funds for 2016/2017 have not been disbursed. The challenge which we have is we are going to accumulate funds from one year to the other and the ability to consume them is going to be a challenge among various constituencies. I want to urge that the Treasury together with the Board move with speed to make sure that they disburse funds on time. We have another issue which we also need to address through the NG-CDF Committee - management and administration of the fund. I agree with what the Chief Whip said, that we need to have the issue of the oversight committee. This oversight committee is the only place where a Member of Parliament comes in. Once it is in place, I believe we will be able to contain and control the funds, although not handling them on day-to-day basis. An honourable Member said that Hon. Lessonet who was the chair during the entire time of the 11th Parliament should have seen that problem and handled it for us. The other issue is what other speakers have said. What is it that we are emphasizing on with regard to NG-CDF? One might wonder, how comes an honourable Member comes from a region which is dominated by political activism? I come from a region where most of the proponents are NASA. I managed to come to this House through Jubilee Party strongly because of my ability to handle NG-CDF. Had I not handled it well, I would not have seen the door of this House for the second time. I want to thank those who supported me and Members who were there last time. This time I will be strong enough. I will be strong enough to oversee from within so that we are able to catch up with what is supposed to be done for the Members. There are various projects. One speaker has said that we are not entitled to participate in county projects and they would want us to cooperate. I would want to urge my colleagues to respect devolution. We want to respect devolution. Let county functions remain county functions. We do national Government functions. We will do it better and we would want to prove that on the comparative scale, what we have been able to achieve with NG-CDF can now be compared with what the county governments have been able to achieve, on the same scale. Therefore, it is a good comparison to give us chance to show that we are able to work with the little that we have. With that, Hon. Speaker, I support."
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