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    "content": "The National Government Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF) that has been hyped should not be a fund that is managed by Members of Parliament (MPs). Under the law, the people who are supposed to run the NG-CDF are the Constituency Development Committees that are supposed to be headed by people who have applied and been competitively recruited. However, what we have is a situation where Members of the National Assembly go to the people – they do not read the law to them - and masquerade that they have brought cheques for various projects. I urge Senators to go back to the counties and educate our people on the provisions of the NG-CDF. As Senators, we are supposed to ensure that by now, every MP, through the Constituency Development Committees, should have held meetings to identify development projects in each ward in the various counties that we come from. You can go and read the law; I am speaking as a Senior Counsel. Their role is to go and witness issuance of cheques; they do not even sign those cheques. The cheques are signed by members of the committees. Therefore, I urge you to go back to your counties and tell the people that it is them who should determine the projects that should be undertaken in their wards. Members of Parliament are supposed to go and witness, the way you, as a Senator, can go there and witness. We do not want people who breach the Constitution by not following what the law is saying. There is no provision in the NG-CDF Act for Members of Parliament to dish out cheques to anybody. That is one issue that we, as Senators, must---"
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