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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tigania West, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mutunga",
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        "legal_name": "John Kanyuithia Mutunga",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to contribute to this Report. The Report comes in as a very realistic and cross-cutting piece of information. I would like to congratulate the Committee that did this Report because of the level of detail in which they have actually covered and also the level of inclusion of the various issues that are highly cross-cutting in very many constituencies in this country. Although the Report is about Nairobi County and constituencies within Nairobi County, we realise that some of these issues are very common across the country. I would like to point out one fundamental factor about NG-CDF. Besides NG-CDF being the fund that is very conspicuous, and the fund that we are overseeing as Members of Parliament, it is the only fund that the communities know about. It is the only fund that is declared in details by the community due to the public participation nature. It is also the only fund that communities can actually audit. Because the communities can audit the fund, they will be able to know many things that probably they would not know if they did not have that particular opportunity. First and foremost, if there are delays in disbursement of funds, people will question why the projects in their areas delay. They will get to know some of the things they ought not to know about Government secrets. The Report points out delays as one of the fundamental factors we would like to underline. We should not have a lot of delay, especially in the disbursement of these funds because the money belongs to the people. People are interested. People know about it, and they actually audit the NG-CDF money. Looking at the recommendations, I would like to say that they edge on the impediments that NG- CDF has undergone over time, especially in those areas that this Report has focussed on. One of The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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