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    "speaker_name": "Buuri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mugambi Rindikiri",
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        "legal_name": "Mugambi Murwithania Rindikiri",
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    "content": "emergencies are we supposed to handle? It is not clear. So, I ask the Committee to, please, relook at that aspect. The imbalances between the constituencies, as I mentioned earlier, is very critical. The other critical issue is the allocation for environment. Again, the NG-CDF Act limits the amount of money that can be spent on the environment. The environment is a concern in this country and we need to be guided, because the percentage given is very small, on what kind of activities we need to be concerned with. With that, I beg to support the work of this Committee. I ask them to quickly come and do it in Meru where we have different scenarios that can give a clear effect of NG-CDF. That is where the chairman, who comes from Meru, should have started from. I think we have a lot of problems in Meru than any other place. Again, I want to echo what other Members have said: The impact of NG-CDF is quite huge on the ground. I have 87 primary schools and only 18 have complete ECDE classes. It is a joke how the county governments spend money. They are very insensitive to the children at ECDE level. It is high time we got the ECDE back to the national government and the money allocated to ECDE reallocated to NG-CDF. We want to cater for nursery schools all the way to the university. As it is right now, it looks discriminatory. The county governments are very insensitive. They are not willing to recruit teachers. They are not willing to put up nice classes, commensurate to a child who has started education. With that, I beg to support this initiative. Thank you very much the Committee. I made a passionate request, please, come and do it in Meru. Thank you very much."
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