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    "id": 979036,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "North Horr, FAP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Chachu Ganya",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Francis Chachu Ganya",
        "slug": "francis-ganya"
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I stand to support the Report of the Special Funds Accounts Committee on the Universal Service Fund as well as the Water Sector Trust Fund. These are Funds that were created to enhance services to the marginal, rural and remote communities of our country. The Universal Service Fund is supposed to provide ICT services to very marginal and remote areas of the country. The special funds are given by the State to undertake this special project. I am a Member of Parliament of a very rural constituency, namely, North Horr. These funds are supposed to be given to our schools, especially secondary schools, so that they are able to access ICT services. For this to be done, there is a requirement that the schools must have very modern laboratories, but most of our schools lack that. As a result, most of our schools do not benefit from the services. The fund managers can approach Members of Parliament and ask them to put up laboratories because we can easily do that under the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF). We are never told to do that. We are told that we are not able to access the funds because we lack the infrastructure. In essence, the Fund, which is supposed to enable marginal areas or schools to be at par with the rest of the nation does not do that. We are even further marginalised. From my research, I have discovered that most of the funds go to Machakos and some areas around here with similar facilities when they are supposed to go to remote, rural and marginal areas. I strongly request the Members of the Special Funds Accounts Committee to have a sitting with Members of Parliament from rural, marginal counties and constituencies who are willing to invest with them, so that our constituency primary and secondary schools and colleges in the regions benefit from ICT services that the Universal Special Fund is supposed to provide."
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