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    "id": 875486,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13331,
        "legal_name": "Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "It is high time we made specific regulations and rules to ensure that we continuously get the best out of NG-CDF all over the country. As all of us know, NG-CDF has had tremendous impact on the rural constituencies, probably even much more than what the county governments have so for achieved. I believe if the allocation had been good enough, much more would have been achieved compared to what has been achieved now. The overarching issue here is management challenge. The late disbursement of funds is completely disorganising the operations and plans of the constituencies. As we speak, whatever has been disbursed is not enough to fund the overwhelming applications for bursaries. As I speak, I have applications of about 10,000 students requiring bursary for this academic year. The funds are not enough and they are not disbursed on time. Consequently, our students and our schools are starting to strain because they have no sufficient funds to run, considering that they depend largely on school fees. We, therefore, urge the Committee, together with the relevant people at the ministry, to expedite the disbursement of funds to make sure that they come in a timeous manner to enable the NG-CDF Committees to discharge their functions. Coming at the last quarter of the financial year as the Committee has noted, it means not many of the projects can be accomplished within that financial year. In many constituencies, many committees are 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."
}