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    "speaker_name": "Kwanza, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ferdinand Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": " I agree and I am happy that you concur with this. The NG-CDF Committee Chairman should have been here. The Mover has moved the Report. Looking around, I do not even see the Vice-Chairman of the Committee. Members’ comments should not be in vain because they affect each one of us. I thought the guy had gone out. He should be asked to apologise to the House because Members are commenting in vain. The Mover is taking notes but those are for the Special Funds Accounts Committee and not the Chairman of the NG-CDF Committee. The NG-CDF has changed lives out there in the rural areas. My concern is that it is now the second month of the year. We are almost getting to the end of the financial year and I am afraid that we have not received the money. I do not know about the rest of the Members, but I have only received Kshs10 million in my account. That amount came just the other day. There is no A-I-E holder yet the financial year is almost ending. The delay in remitting the NG-CDF funds is incredible. The Government should prioritise the disbursement of those funds. This is February. We are now dealing with the Budget proposals yet we have not received the money. Secondly, in the last Parliament, some Members organised a coup. The previous allocation of funds was done according to the geographical size of a constituency. It was based on the poverty index and the population. Somehow, Members organised themselves and passed the Bill having changed that regulation. It is now on equal basis which is very unfair. My constituency is very big. It has eight wards. There are some constituencies with only two or three wards. Sharing the money equally is very unfair. My neighbouring constituency where 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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