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    "id": 1046349,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kanduyi, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Wafula Wamunyinyi",
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        "id": 291,
        "legal_name": "Athanas Misiko Wafula Wamunyinyi",
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    "content": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) Board has received a total of Kshs20 billion for the Financial Year 2020/2021 against an allocation of Kshs41 billion for this Financial Year. That is to say about 50 percent of this year’s allocation has been disbursed. I have details of how those disbursements have been received from the Treasury, including the dates. The last was on 4th February 2021. About Kshs2 billion has not been released to the constituencies. The funds have been disbursed to various constituencies against the Financial Year 2020/2021 batched allocations and pending disbursements for the previous financial years. It is important for Members to pay attention to this one. Funds have been disbursed to this year’s allocation but depending on the previous financial years, constituencies that have not received funds have also been given the funds. I have a list of constituencies which have received arrears for the last financial year. It is popularly known as arrears. Of the Kshs20 billion, Kshs18 billion has been disbursed. Kshs2 billion was received on 4th and is yet to be disbursed. I also have details of how much has been disbursed for Financial Year 2020/2021 to all constituencies. Only Kshs2.364 billion has been disbursed towards this financial year - that is about Kshs9 million per constituency. Hon. Deputy Speaker, please, pay attention to my explanation. Out of Kshs20 billion, we still have Kshs2 billion in the account. From Kshs18 billion, around Kshs3.2 million went to this financial year. The rest went to previous pending disbursements to our constituencies. I have a list of constituencies that have benefited from this. This is not entirely my problem. It was inherited because we are dealing with arrears from the other years. For this year, I have fought to get the funds. However, because the arrears were in constituencies, they had to be paid. We just need to be reasonable about this so that we move together. For this financial year, an amount of Kshs3.164 billion has been disbursed to the constituencies against allocations as follows: The Board disbursed Kshs2 million to the constituencies that were in the process of receiving second half allocation for financial years 2019/2020 and 2018/2019 to cater for administrative expenses amounting to Kshs20 million. This is self-explanatory because those constituencies did not receive those funds at the time. Constituencies whose project proposals had been deliberated on, approved by the Board and had received funding for previous financial year, received up to Kshs9 million, which amounts to about Kshs2 million. Further, the Board disbursed Kshs8 million to constituencies whose project proposals had been received but had not been deliberated on by the Board. Those that had been deliberated on but deferred were to cater for bursaries, emergencies and administrative expenses amounting to Kshs318 million. Constituencies that had submitted their project proposals and those that had not requested for previous funding received Kshs5 million to cater for emergencies and administrative expenses amounting to Kshs89 million On disbursement statuses as of the 2020/2021 Financial Year, 213 constituencies have received partial project funding totalling to Kshs1billion - Kshs937 million. A total of 77 constituencies have received partial statutory allocations amounting to Kshs427 million. An 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."
}