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    "id": 874770,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Gichugu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gichimu Githinji",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Gichimu Githinji",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, it is also important that a kitty within the Fund be created to identify and promote talents at the local level, that is, the constituency level. Probably a certain amount should be curved out from the Fund so that each and every constituency can be given a certain amount of money. This is because the small flow we get from NG-CDF is not enough. In my Gichugu Constituency, I have more than 50 football teams without even counting the volleyball teams and other sporting activities. When we go to apply for these funds, we realise that they are not even enough to take care of a single tournament. Even if you did one tournament, it would not be a satisfactory one so as to nurture and breed talents that can be exposed to competition and also transform families. That is an area that the Committee also needs to look at. Under Clause 30, there is a proposal that there be an investment of the surplus funds. However, I keep wondering: Where is this surplus coming from and yet we are not able to finance the little activities that we have even at the constituency level? That is something that should be scrapped because it is most likely to be subjected to abuse. If you create an opportunity for investment in a fund that is supposed to be rolling out projects and programmes to support our youth and sporting activities, then that is an opening for abuse. Clause 32 of the Bill talks of actuarial evaluation of the Fund after five years. The term of the board is three years. So, if someone misappropriates funds, he or she may want that actuarial evaluation of the Fund to be done after their term. I think it is proper that an amendment be 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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