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"content": "issues at hand, no prejudice would be occasioned. The Liaison Committee will handle these matters until committees are reconstituted. I directed that both sides of the House leadership must be ready with the reconstituted committees by the end of the day tomorrow Thursday, 27th February 2025 so that we can begin next week with fully operational committees. Those that will be reconstituted differently will elect their chairpersons and proceed with their work. On the issue of percentages for the NG-CDF, we have an NG-CDF Committee in this House led by Hon. Musa Sirma. However, it is one of the committees that has lapsed. I will direct that once the committees are reconstituted, your matter be placed before them to be dealt with together with the Budget and Appropriations Committee to ensure that percentages locked in the Constitution are respected. We will ensure that is done. I am a firm believer in NG-CDF and its impact on the country. Any shilling less on NG-CDF affects wananchi directly. It is so directed. Thank you. Yes, Hon. Wamboka. Do you have something else?"
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"speaker_name": "Bumula, DAP-K",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I am well guided on the issue of the Liaison Committee and similarly on the issue of NG-CDF. However, there is a worrying trend that even Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA) funds have been revised downwards. You may not be aware of that. We will bring a substantive Motion to deal with that."
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"content": "I thought KeRRA is subject of a court dispute. I understand they are surrogate litigants engineered by the Council of Governors (CoG) competing against the interests of constituencies in the management of some KeRRA funds. This is a matter we are dealing with."
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"speaker_name": "Bumula, DAP-K",
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"content": " Hon. Speaker, we will need your direction because we need to be very firm. If CoG is using surrogates, we can also surrogate."
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"content": "Parliament is not looking for any surrogates; we are defending that suit with all the veracity we have."
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"content": " Hon Speaker, why would KeRRA be revising these figures downwards? Since the case is in court, why can the status quo not remain? Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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"speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Millie Odhiambo-Mabona",
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"content": " Point of order, Hon. Speaker."
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"content": "Hon. Millie, then the Member for Kesses."
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"speaker_title": "Hon. Millie Odhiambo-Mabona",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. You have just said that as the National Assembly, we are not surrogating but defending. When you are always under attack, sometimes attack is the best defence. The CoG is surrogating somebody else to take away work that helps in our constituencies yet under the Fourth Schedule to the Constitution, county governors have no constitutional mandate to issue bursaries. But because we know the bursaries help people, we block our ears and close our eyes to the fact that what they are doing is unconstitutional. So, instead of defending, why do we also not attack so that it is fair? The National Assembly has many brilliant minds. Like Paul asks in the Bible, “Foolish Galatians, who bewitched you?”, foolish parliamentarians, who bewitched you? Why are we allowing people to always attack Parliament yet we have brains and we can also attack them in courts?"
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"content": "If they want to take away KeRRA funds that help our people, then let us refer to the Constitution. There is no bursary for Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE). The constitutional mandate for governors is very clear. In education, it is the ECDE. I do not know of any child who makes ECDE payment using bursaries. We only keep quiet because we know the bursaries help our people. If they want war, let them bring it on. We will meet them halfway."
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