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    "id": 768354,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Atandi",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Onunga Atandi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. At the outset, I would like to say that I support this Motion. I would like to say that CDF so far is one of the most impactful devolution items this country has seen. And I think this is the reason why it has so many enemies. We have the civil society, the Executive, the county governments, most of which are against the administration of NG-CDF. I think the reason why this is happening is because of serious accolades that NG-CDF projects have continued to receive in comparison to those projects that are being done by our counties across the country. You find that a project that is undertaken by NG-CDF will be more received by wananchi than those that are being done by our county governments. It is upon Parliament to protect NG-CDF by all means because we have many enemies. Secondly, I have seen that NG-CDF allocation across the constituencies is uniform. I would like to say this with a lot of humility to my colleagues, who probably represent constituencies that are much smaller than others: I find this unfair. For instance, my constituency, Alego-Usonga, has six wards and 110,000 voters. If you compare it with, say, Garissa Township Constituency, which I am told is quite small, it is not in order for this Parliament to continue allocating resources equally across constituencies, knowing very well that some constituencies are bigger and others are smaller, in terms of geography and also in terms of population."
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