{"count":1608389,"next":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=155352","previous":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=155350","results":[{"id":1571702,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1571702/?format=json","text_counter":208,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Kitui Central, WDM","speaker_title":"Hon. (Dr) Makali Mulu","speaker":null,"content":"infrastructural development, particularly in providing bursaries for our students, especially those in need, including orphans in this country. The NG-CDF has also assisted our security sector in providing infrastructure for our security officers. This Fund emerges top in terms of the positive impact it has had on Kenyans. Any right-thinking Kenyan should support the entrenchment of this Fund in the Constitution. It will help improve the lives of our people."},{"id":1571703,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1571703/?format=json","text_counter":209,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Kitui Central, WDM","speaker_title":"Hon. (Dr) Makali Mulu","speaker":null,"content":"The other issue is public participation. The current NG-CDF Act says that every two years, public participation is conducted to identify programmes and projects that should be funded to benefit our people. Public participation has also been adequately catered for in this Fund as required by the Constitution. Our people can give their views on what they want done. This way, we will have targeted developments by funding what the people proposed. That is why I support these three Funds."},{"id":1571704,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1571704/?format=json","text_counter":210,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Kitui Central, WDM","speaker_title":"Hon. (Dr) Makali Mulu","speaker":null,"content":"Without belabouring, I urge my colleagues to support this Constitutional Amendment. Let us prove that we are in support of this by availing ourselves for the afternoon Sitting; we do not even achieve the two-thirds, but 100 per cent attendance in support of the three Funds. That way, we will help this country move in the right direction. Colleagues who are out there or watching the proceedings, make sure by 2.30 p.m. we are a full House so that we support these important Funds. We will be helping this country. With those many remarks, I support."},{"id":1571705,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1571705/?format=json","text_counter":211,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Martha Wangari","speaker_title":"The Temporary Speaker","speaker":null,"content":" Very well. I see there is a lot of interest. Though we have 10 minutes per Member, if we can try and shorten it, more people will speak. The Standing Orders do not provide for that; it has to be a personal conviction to take a shorter time. Member for Kitutu Masaba, Hon. Gisairo."},{"id":1571706,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1571706/?format=json","text_counter":212,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Kitutu Masaba, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Clive Gisairo","speaker":null,"content":" Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Firstly, let me start by congratulating and thanking Hon. Otiende Amollo and Hon. Samwel Chepkonga for bringing this Bill to this House. The 2010 Constitution had very good intentions on devolution. However, it did not foresee a point where we are going to create 47 demigods. People who control funds, but the funds do not reflect in the lives of the people. The 47 demigods know that they cannot be summoned by this House; they can only be summoned by the Senate, which has little or no say on the direction of whatever they do. The Senators are not even able to know what actual projects are taking place in their counties. Members of Parliament are called by constituents to complain about dysfunctional services in the counties, matters that should be handled by the Senators. It is in that spirit that we feel that the Senators should get the Senate Oversight Fund. This will allow them to walk the streets of their counties, visit dispensaries, hospitals, and primary schools with Early Childhood Development and Education (ECDE) classes to confirm whether those infrastructures are being done and done in the right way. As a House, we therefore have to support this provision to ensure that Senators are well and properly resourced to oversee our 47 demigods. Resources will never be enough. We cannot reach everyone individually. And that is the spirit of having the National Government Affirmative Action Fund (NGAAF), to allow the women representatives to identify and support vulnerable cases within our communities. The NGAAF has done a commendable job. In my county, I have seen women and young people's groups being empowered to get their lives together. We have seen girls getting sanitary towels, things that we see as basics, but millions of our Kenyan youth cannot afford. Their parents are not able. NGAAF should not only be entrenched here, but the amount should at least be doubled to enable the vulnerable in the community to be taken care of in the right manner. 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."},{"id":1571707,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1571707/?format=json","text_counter":213,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Kitutu Masaba, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Clive Gisairo","speaker":null,"content":"Many Members have said that Members of Parliament are not party to the NG-CDF. We are elected to perform three key roles: oversight, legislate, and represent. We have a hand in the NG-CDF by virtue of representation. The 350,000 people of Kitutu Masaba will not face the fund manager, all of them at once. That is why they have elected me as their leader to listen to and represent them in different forums. I, therefore, play my role to represent them. They have a vision, but the 350,000 of them cannot present that vision. You, therefore, as a Member of Parliament, are the vision carrier for your people. We will, therefore, continue playing our role of representing our people to the Board and the Constituency Development Fund Committees (CDFCs). I sit in the Select Committee on the National Government Constituencies Development Fund, and if there is a Fund that is properly structured, it is this Fund. The money goes to the Board, the Board sends the money to the constituencies' CDFC's main account. From there, the money does not go to the contractor. It goes to the project management committee account, which has a representation of the local community where the project is going to be done. The members of that community are the signatories. This is the Fund that reaches the poor. It is the Fund that speaks the language of the poor. Today, while we talk here, we are not talking as Members of Parliament. We are carrying the voices of the millions of people we represent."},{"id":1571708,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1571708/?format=json","text_counter":214,"type":"scene","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"(Applause)"},{"id":1571709,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1571709/?format=json","text_counter":215,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Kitutu Masaba, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Clive Gisairo","speaker":null,"content":"We will not allow this country to go to a point where the Member of Parliament of Kitutu Masaba, who is elected on the Opposition side, cannot be able to get classrooms for the children of Kitutu Masaba. We are not going back to where we begged certain institutions for our people to get the very basic. Education is basic. Classrooms are basic. Bursaries are basic. We are not going to allow a point where we have to go back to kneeling and singing loyalty for our people to get what is their right."},{"id":1571710,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1571710/?format=json","text_counter":216,"type":"scene","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"(Applause)"},{"id":1571711,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1571711/?format=json","text_counter":217,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Kitutu Masaba, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Clive Gisairo","speaker":null,"content":"The NG-CDF has brought equity to this country. We should all fight for this Fund. And for the people who are forever taking it to court, and only appear in the villages carrying bottled water once in a blue moon to attend a funeral and cannot even sleep in those villages, you should know that we are the ones who carry those children of the poor. The children who have no pampers, we are the ones who carry them, look them in the eye and see the dreams in their eyes. Those who sit in Nairobi, in the courts and well-ventilated offices, do not tell us what the people go through. We are the ones who know what people go through. We are the ones who know the dreams of the poor child. It is our responsibility as a House to show up today. If you do not show up, we will put you in the bracket of the aloofness represented by the people active in courts. I would like to end there. I support this Bill because with it our children have a future. Thank you."}]}