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"content": "No, Hon. Oloo Aringo was in Parliament much earlier. They held no positions, but they used to walk to the national Treasury on behalf of the House and frog-match the then-minister to the House to tell Members about CDF. It will be an extremely cowardly act for you, Members of Parliament, with all the powers under the Constitution in your hands, to boycott your work. It will be a very cowardly act, I can assure you. As a House, you almost impeached a Cabinet Secretary. Indeed, you impeached a Deputy President. You have powers in your hands. How do you run away from your own House? That is the big question. I ask you to give the House an opportunity tomorrow to listen to a response to a very noble Point of Order raised by the Member for Bumula. It is only tomorrow, not the next day or Friday. It is tomorrow at 2.30 p.m. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"content": "If you agree with your Speaker, we can go on with the business of the House. Those of you who are not keen to carry on with the business of the House, do not disrupt the House. Let those who want to go on with business continue. Let me now give the Leader of the Majority Party an opportunity to tell us about the issue of NG-CDF."
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. As you rightly said, this is a matter that we have discussed at the House Business Committee. As the Member for Bumula said last week in his Point of Order, NG-CDF is not money going to Members of Parliament. Members of Parliament are elected by their people to represent them in this House. Part of that representation is to advocate for resources to go, especially to vulnerable children who, up to date, have yet to get bursaries. It is also not lost on many people in the country that, with the advisory by the Controller of Budget, all bursaries from county governments to vulnerable children should stop. Only NG- CDF is left to help these children. Many children, especially college-going students, are waiting for bursaries. The best we can do as a House is to hold the Cabinet Secretary and the Principal Secretary accountable for why they cannot disburse the NG-CDF in time. Previously, we got a commitment from the national Treasury that they would have disbursed all NG-CDF money before the end of the financial year, which is only two months away. I agree that it is less than 24 hours before the Cabinet Secretary appears before the House. I encourage Members to be present because there are not usually very many in the House when Cabinet Secretaries appear to answer questions most Wednesdays. This is the time to hold the Cabinet Secretary to account for his words. He committed to making monthly disbursements to ensure all the money is disbursed by the end of June. Therefore, whatever magic he will do between now and 30th June 2025, 100 per cent of NG-CDF money must be disbursed. Hon. John Mbadi has sat where we are sitting and knows what NG-CDF is to the people of Kenya. Let me repeat: he knows what NG-CDF is to the people of Kenya, not to Members of Parliament. Members of Parliament will still earn their salaries and go about their representation and oversight work without NG-CDF. The Fund means a lot to the people of Kenya. There are places where children do not go to school, not just because of lack of bursary. The national Government now prides itself on building over 14,000 classrooms over the last year. However, the number of classrooms that NG-CDF builds around the country in a year is probably triple that number. It is only through the NG-CDF that children access schools, and some communities get security through the construction of police posts and police stations. We are lifting a very huge burden from the national Government through NG-CDF. Therefore, the Cabinet Secretary of the national Treasury has no choice. Tomorrow, he must come prepared, if not with his words, then with his chequebook. Tomorrow, it is pesa, pesa and pesa to NG- CDF. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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"content": "Order, Hon. Members. Hon. Wario, those children up there are watching you, and you are their Leader. Order!"
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"content": " Hon. Speaker, I first appreciate the guidance you have given the House. The NG-CDF has a lot of enemies for no apparent reason. Many people are fighting it because they do not have the correct information about it. County The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"content": "governments and devolution have been in existence in this country for more than 10 years. It is now imperative for Kenyans to take stock of what has happened through devolution since its inception in 2013. The NG-CDF projects have the least administrative expenditure, unlike county governments, which spend all their money on recurrent expenditure. This Fund goes directly to schools, children who want to study, and homes. On education matters, county governments only deal with Early Childhood Development Education (ECDEs). In contrast, the national Government funds primary and secondary education, which is where NG-CDF helps. There is no shorter time than a day. We have said that the Cabinet Secretary must appear tomorrow in person. I urge the House to wait until we make our final decision tomorrow, God willing. I have gone through the Order Paper today, and there are some serious issues that we need to deal with."
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