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"speaker_name": "Nakuru Town East, JP",
"speaker_title": "Hon. David Gikaria",
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"content": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, I do not know whether this is the right time I should be raising this matter. Now that the Leader of the Majority Party has just laid reports on some constituencies on the NG-CDF, I do not know whether it is the right time. We are in the third month and the end of the first quarter and nothing has been said so far by the Chair of the CDF committee. The NG-CDF Act stipulates very clearly that the membership of the CDF Committee lapses after every two years. You remember in the 11th Parliament, we lost almost three months trying to get new members of the CDF committees, so that that the NG-CDF could start operating. I think it is time the Committee came up, first, on matters of allocation to every constituency and, second, on matters of where the board has reached in terms of replacement of the other CDF Committee members, if at all every constituency is going to have changes, so that we do not lose a lot of time during the transition. Most importantly, we are at the end of the first quarter and nothing has been said about this. It is high time the Chair of the CDF updated this House on matters of the CDF and where we have reached. It might be very tricky for us. I am not saying that we are in charge of the CDF, but at least we are in the process of collecting proposals. Other constituencies have already done that and yet we have not been given an update whatsoever. Secondly, there are double standards within the NG-CDF. I am not sure whether I should do a petition. In my constituency, the public gave proposals on matters to do with this matter. When you want to build a school, they ask you for some letters from the ministry, which you give and then they ask for land documents. This is the case and yet other constituencies continue building schools on land for which they have not acquired titles. I think it is not fair for them to have double standards."
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