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    "id": 832430,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ruaraka, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. T.J. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Allow me to congratulate the Committee for the good work they have done. This is a special committee that we just formed this term. You can see that we are debating a Report of 2013, 2014 and 2015. Those are three reports together. This is the second report. They are current. They are doing very well. They are probably doing much better than PAC and PIC. I am proud of them because this is what the Republic expects us to do – that we can oversee these funds on a timely basis. We do not want to put them on postmortem and then find out when they die. So, what happens? I want to encourage you, Chair of the Committee; that, you are on the right path plus the team that is behind you. You are able to give good leadership. I do not want my sister from Suba North to leave because I want to let her know a few things about inequality of distribution of resources. Before I say so, just allow me, as Member for Ruaraka, to be pleased with this Committee. I have seen that in the constituency that I oversee, they have given us a clean bill of good health. They have looked at several aspects of how we handle NG-CDF and they have said that we are good to go. This is what the public needs to know – that we are the eye of the public; that, we are the first overseers of the funds. Were it not for our presence under Articles 94 and 95, they probably would have lost everything. Right now, there is a lot of hemorrhage in the national Government. It is, perhaps, because with NG- CDF, we have this iron-fist control over it. Yes, there are variances and deviations, but it is not as big as what the national Government is experiencing in several departments. Members of the public should understand. If there is anything, I thought the newspapers should write about these kinds of things instead of saying sijui who has not spoken in Parliament and who has said what. These are the reports which concern the issues that they should write about, but you will see that they are bored and they are all yawning. They are unlikely to pick some of these issues and report on them."
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