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    "id": 1006585,
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    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "showing diligence and for being committed to the work that the people of Kenya have mandated us to do. Finally, allow me to talk about the NG-CDF. As the leadership of this House, we will continue to put pressure on the National Treasury, so that these amounts are released in good time. The National Treasury is very slow in releasing money for the NG-CDF, yet they are very quick at releasing monies under Article 223 of the Constitution, including monies for projects that are not emergency cases. This is disheartening because if you look at the framework of the NG-CDF, it is actually what one would call a ‘stimulus package’. If there is any Fund that has consistently been a stimulus package to this economy, it is the NG-CDF because it stimulates economic growth at the grassroots-level. I agree that the Leader of Majority has communicated with the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury, who has made a commitment; but that commitment should be realised this week. This is to enable the constituencies which have not received the full allocation from the Board to do so latest, mid next week. Therefore, the money should leave the National Treasury this week to allow the constituencies to embark on implementation of projects which were planned for execution in the Financial Year 2019/2020. Those of us whose constituencies got the money earlier – about 13 constituencies received their full allocations. I thank God that Suba South is one of them. We will use the recess to supervise implementation of the projects. That is our role. For example, in my constituency, there are a number of projects which have been completed. I am going to use this time productively in terms of seeing how those projects have been implemented. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I did not intend to speak a lot on this Motion because it is a procedural Motion. Allow me to stop there. I second the Procedural Motion."
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