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    "id": 880503,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 376,
        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": " Aladdin. Thank you. It is good to sit next to learned people like my friend, Passaris. You wave the magic wand and suddenly, lo and behold, there is a classroom! NG-CDF has produced miracles like that. I spoke to a similar Motion. So, I will not say much. I want to over-emphasise one thing. As Members of Parliament, I know sometimes because we are busy, we forget our role – I included. Sometimes we are guilty of speaking to ourselves. Every person who is speaking here is acknowledging that there are two faults with NG-CDF. There are many others, but the most significant one is the issue of oversight because the role of the Member of Parliament is primarily oversight of funds and we have fund account managers who, most times, are very difficult. You tell them this is the way it should go, they want to go their own ways for their own reasons. The MPs are not enabled to do their oversight role. We speak a lot and we tell the Committee. Sometimes, we must stop speaking and act. So, I am bringing an amendment to the NG-CDF Act that will enable us to have funds to undertake our oversight roles as Members of Parliament. The other issue which is problematic as NG-CDF is that of public participation. The law talks about the issue of public participation in coming up with projects. Most Members of Parliament do this as a matter of course and yet there are no funds for public participation. So, when you go to these constituencies, you have to release your own money. You have to pay the public for any soda. You have to undertake every activity that is the responsibility of the Government during public participation. I am, therefore, bringing another amendment to put funds for public participation. It is not in order for Members to be using their own money to do Government work. For those of us who have studied anti-corruption measures, you tempt people to be corrupt. You want to get your money back from the same funds or others, so that you can facilitate your work and so, you end up looking like you are stealing when you are doing Government work. We should not be made to start doing innovative work around the NG-CDF. Let the Government work be done properly using Government funds. If it is public participation, it will be spelt as public participation and funds allocated just the same way they are allocated for oversight."
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