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    "id": 85731,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kamama",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Asman Abongutum Kamama",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Motion. I also wish to thank the Mover of this Motion, hon. Ethuro, who is the Chairman of the CDF Committee. I also wish to thank the Members who execute the mandate of CDF; the ones who support hon. Ethuro, for a job well done. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, you will agree that all of us here, together with many other Kenyans, support the CDF initiative. The CDF framework has revolutionized development in this country. I am only surprised that there is a funny nexus between the CDF members and the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and the Ministry of Finance. To the best of my knowledge and information, I know that the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance has discharged his duties impeccably. He has done very well. The initiatives that he has introduced in the form of similar packages at the grassroots level are quite impressive. I still feel that the CDF Committee, together with the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of finance, should put their heads together and make sure that this problem is solved as a matter of priority. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, all Ministries in this country have a vision, service charters and strategic plans. They also have performance contracts with very specific benchmarks. So when you are told that Kshs6.8 billion has not been disbursed for the last three or four years, this is an unfortunate situation. It reflects badly on that respective Ministry. So I want to call upon the officers, especially the Treasury mandarins, to help the Minister execute his mandate; to help him achieve the very specific objectives of this Ministry. I want to ask the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance to fast track the disbursement of the remaining funds to the CDF Committee so that these funds can be taken to our people in the villages. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I speak as a former civil servant and I know quite a lot of initiatives which were meant to transform Kenya into a middle income economy have flopped. There are many initiatives; you all know the District Focus for Rural Development strategy or the Nyachae Initiatives, the Rural Development Fund that was being supported by DANIDA, the way it was plundered by officers and it never took off."
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