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    "id": 875877,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyaribari Chache, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Richard Tong’i",
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        "legal_name": "Richard Nyagaka Tongi",
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    "content": "It is true, and I agree with my colleagues, that the NG-CDF has impacted society more than any other fund from the national Government. We need to increase the NG-CDF from the 2.5 per cent to 3 per cent of the last Government audited accounts or even more because it has proven that it works more effectively. If it can be increased to a higher level, I am sure we will achieve more as a country because we have seen how the NG-CDF works. The NG-CDF is so itemised that it is almost impossible for any misappropriation of funds to happen. When we send our proposal to the NG-CDF, we attach item-by-item budget. You are able to say what you are going to do with the money. For example, we all know that we can only do so much with a bursary using a given percentage. We know that some percentage has to go to security. We know what budgets are meant for and, therefore, you are able to allocate per project. How I wish that was done by the county governments as well so that even as they are sending budget requests to Nairobi, they are able to itemise what they will do with the money that they have been given so that we are able to follow and confirm whether that money was used the way it was envisaged to be used from the word go. We are almost going to the third month of the year and we have not received the money which is meant to have been received by now. We are remaining with a few months before the end of the financial year. I am sure we are hurting our people because we are not able to disburse bursaries to our needy students. There are some students who are out of school and colleges today because they are not able to raise the money required for their studies because a Member of Parliament is completely unable; he has not received money from the NG-CDF. It is simply that they have not been given money by the National Treasury. We need to make a decision as a House to get it as a priority so that when Cabinet Secretary is giving out money, just as he gives out on a priority basis, the NG-CDF should be the one that should be given priority because of its impact and the expectation from society. The people out there are waiting for this money and we are inconveniencing the very people we are supposed to protect so that they are able to contribute to the economy of this country. 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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