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    "id": 880582,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/880582/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Laisamis, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Marselino Arbelle",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Marselino Malimo Arbelle",
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    "content": "funds in this country that have empowered communities across the country, it is none other than the NG-CDF. Therefore, it is very unfortunate that the funds, which have increasingly been meeting the objectives of the people have not been disbursed to the respective constituencies on timely basis. It is very unfortunate that the National Treasury is doing very little. Actually, they are disbursing the funds piecemeal to the respective constituencies making the lives of innocent Kenyans at the ward level very difficult. I want to emphasise on the drought that is being felt in the arid areas today. There is drought everywhere in the country although it is critically being felt by the people in arid and semi-arid areas. Secondary school students, college students and university students who solely depend on these funds to pay their school fees have not received the funds. The pastoral community whose livelihood depends on livestock is experiencing acute drought and is unable to sell their livestock. There is no market to sell their livestock. The Kenya Meat Commission (KMC) is dead. How do you expect these Kenyans to survive? It is, therefore, prudent if the National Treasury is compelled to make sure they send this money as quickly as possible. I read in the newspapers the other day that the National Treasury has disbursed billions of shillings to some non-existent dams. I think the National Treasury does not have eyes and ears to listen and hear the cries of Kenyans. That is why they went ahead and paid billions yet they are not able to disburse funds where they are needed. People feel that the money should go to the NG-CDF. There are places in this country where children are learning under trees. It is only the NG-CDF that can be used to build schools to make sure our children go to school. I am also surprised that the NG-CDF Committee came up with a recommendation to give equal amounts of money to all the constituencies in Kenya yet there are constituencies which are far much better than others. Pastoral communities need to be given more consideration owing to the fact that these are areas which have been marginalised and neglected since time immemorial."
}