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    "speaker_name": "Sirisia, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Waluke",
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        "legal_name": "John Waluke Koyi",
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    "content": " Most of my colleagues have spoken about the NG-CDF. There are so many desperate cases outside there. There are poor children who miss out on school because of lack of funds. I want to take this opportunity to thank the Chairman of the NG-CDF Committee and his Members because they have done a recommendable job. Sometimes, I blame myself and other Members of this House. In the 11th Parliament, we failed as a House, when Hon. Lessonet brought the Bill on equitability. You cannot compare a constituency like Nyakach or Kwanza with either Starehe or Langata. These are constituencies that have been developed since Independence. Our colleagues are the ones who influenced the inequitable process knowing that constituencies in the rural areas are poor. It is like you are given poison to drink, you take it and kill yourself. When that Bill came on the Floor of the House, although I was not in, it is us that shot ourselves down by agreeing on equitability. All the same, sometimes, the NG-CDF delays to get the money from the National Treasury. Also, there are some people in the National Treasury who think that the money belongs to either their mothers or fathers, but this is public money. They close the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) to delay the money until when Budget is about to be read and then they release the money. There is misuse of money in the National Treasury and as a Parliament, we need to look into this very seriously. Sometimes the money can come and the AIE delays even for two months. You cannot account for the money in the account and the people in the constituencies are suffering. So, there are so many ways that we need to look into this and decide as Members of Parliament, particularly about the CEO of the NG-CDF. Mr. Mbuno has acted for too long. Eight years is a very long time for somebody to be in acting capacity. Sometimes his morale goes down. The Chair, together with the Finance and National Planning Committee, need to compel the NG-CDF Board and the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury, Mr. Rotich, to state why the CEO has acted for this long. It is unfair. He is a human being like me or any other. Sometimes, we need to think twice and consider him."
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