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    "content": "government; two men, one of whom shall be a youth at the date of appointment; two women, one of whom shall be a youth at the date of appointment; one person with disability nominated by a registered group representing People Living with Disability in the constituency, and two persons nominated by the constituency office. Further, subsections (3) and (4) provide that the seven persons shall be selected in such a manner and shall have such qualifications as the Board may prescribe. The names of the selected persons are submitted by the Board to the National Assembly for approval before appointment and gazettement. Pursuant to the above, the NG-CDF Board has to date received lists of proposed NG-CDF committee members from all the 290 constituencies. Lists from 181 constituencies were approved by the National Assembly by April 2020. Lists of 180 constituencies were gazetted with effect from 14th April 2020 vide Gazette Notice No. 3737, published on 29th May 2020. Msambweni Constituency was not published in the Kenya Gazette . As you will all recall, the Member of Parliament for the area passed on before the committee was gazetted, which placed it in transition until a by-election is held. Lists of 93 constituencies were approved by the National Assembly in the month of June and the names were subsequently gazetted with effect from 11th June 2020 and 18th June 2020 vide Gazette Notice Nos. 5858 and 5859, respectively. Lists of 11 other constituencies have been submitted to the National Assembly for approval pursuant to Section 43 and the Board is awaiting the Clerk’s certificate once the lists are approved. Finally, lists of three constituencies—Chepalungu, Kuria East and Shinyalu—are currently being analysed by the Board for compliance to the Act and regulations before presentation to the National Assembly for approval. The delay has been necessitated by the fact that the process of selection failed to meet the criteria set out under Section 43 of the Act. Members need to follow the law to ensure that where you are required to meet the gender rule, you must comply; and where a youth is required, it must be a youth as described in the definition of youth. Those are some of the issues that could have led to the non-acceptance of the proposed names from those constituencies. Members need to follow the law. It should also be noted that committee members for two constituencies have their terms ongoing: Embakasi South and Ugenya. Their terms will end in May 2021 and August 2021, respectively. I have given the background and explained the reason the Motion is before the House. I would like to state that we have been able to unlock the funds that had stuck at the Treasury. I would like to appreciate the CS for the National Treasury, who has now released up to Ksh12 billion. We are only left with about Ksh4 billion to complete disbursement, including funds for previous years that had been held up. I will ask colleagues to see to it that the funds are put to good use. Particularly, we have a challenge of ensuring that there is enough space in schools to comply with the health protocols which are going to be set out. I heard a colleague talking about the stimulus package desks. We should also ensure that we buy desks to ensure that when schools open, students are able to keep the distance required. Finally, I would like to ask Members to ensure that proposals for this financial year, the ceiling for which has since been set, are submitted to the Board for the necessary approvals to ensure that the funds begin trickling down. With those few remarks, I beg to move and ask Hon. Keynan to second."
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