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    "id": 1053673,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1053673/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Wajir East, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Rashid Kassim",
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        "legal_name": "Rashid Kassim Amin",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to speak on behalf of the majority of the Members and this House. It is fair to give a true picture of the disbursement that has been going in the current financial year, which started on 1st July 2020. I wish to confirm that in the last financial year, we had arrears averaging Kshs17 million per constituency. So, we had an outstanding payment of projects which were due to receive a total of Kshs17 million in that financial year. In the ongoing fiscal year, we have a total disbursement of Kshs36.4 billion, which amounts to only 26 per cent of the entire expected disbursements. While this Government is taking keen interest to disburse and give revenues to the counties, it has not given attention to the Members of Parliament in their respective constituencies, which are doing critical services particularly in disbursement of bursaries, construction of classrooms and provision of items used for prevention of COVID-19. Members’ interests have not received the attention they desire. So, it is the intention of these Members of Parliament, in unison, to make sure that there is disbursement of nearly 80 per cent of the total NG-CDF pending allocations prior to them undertaking any other dedication on the Division of Revenue Bill and the Supplementary Budget."
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