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    "id": 875581,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kanduyi, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Wafula Wamunyinyi",
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        "legal_name": "Athanas Misiko Wafula Wamunyinyi",
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    "content": "management particularly in relation to sports and other projects. I have also seen a recommendation on development of guidelines on compliance with international standards and the Public Audit Act. If these recommendations are followed and implemented, you obviously expect there will be improvement in terms of management of the NG-CDF affairs in our constituencies. You will recall that the establishment of the NG-CDF was in response to the bias in development in our country, namely, the unequal distribution of resources by the Government. So, the NG-CDF was introduced by the Members of Parliament to ensure that every corner of the country, whether they are politically right or wrong, benefit from the national cake. There was resistance, but we managed to push through the Bill, which eventually became the NG-CDF Act. So, it was intended to address bias and inequity. That was actually the beginning of devolution because we got funds to constituencies. Then the money got to the wards through the construction of and development of projects from the different line ministries like water, agriculture and roads. This happened until devolution came about and took over most of the activities and development projects that were being undertaken by the NG-CDF. The formula originally developed was serving us very well until the last Parliament when a coup was brought about by the then Chairman of the CDF Committee, Hon. Lessonet. Where he got the current formula from, nobody knows, because you cannot claim that all constituencies are equal."
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