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"speaker_name": "Kanduyi, FORD-K",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Wafula Wamunyinyi",
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"content": "The National Treasury has been disbursing Kshs 2 billion every week from 11th August 2020 to 10th May 2021. So far, we have received a total of Kshs41.714 billion which was allocated to the NG-CDF for the entire financial year. That means the law has been complied with as per Section 32 of the CDF Act. This is how the amount has been given to the constituencies. An amount of Kshs36.633billion has been disbursed to constituencies while Kshs 1.365 billion has been disbursed to the board secretariat. At the moment, the board is at the process of disbursing Kshs 3.7148 billion which was received on 5th and 10th of May to wrap up the entire financial year’s allocation. The Kshs20.151 billion has been disbursed to constituencies as per this Financial Year 2020/2021 budget allocation. Secondly, Kshs16.4918 billion has been disbursed to constituencies with respect to balances in the previous years. In last financial year, so much was carried forward, but this has had to be disbursed in this year’s allocation. An amount of Kshs 1.365 billion has been disbursed to the board secretariat and Kshs 3.14 billion is in the process right now as we speak. As early as next week, if disbursement is not concluded today, each Member will receive on average of Kshs 8 million in their kitty. The full breakdown of the disbursement is given on a table here which is detailed. Since I am going to table this, I am not going to read through the entire table. I have given names of all the constituencies and amounts received by each constituency. As I said, this table here gives the current amount, the status of the amount per constituency, what is in progress, the amount that is to be released in the next one or two days, and the last coin is the grand total per constituency. Some constituencies have received more than Kshs80 million up to Kshs90 million, others up to Kshs80 million. So, on average, at least each constituency would have received Kshs80 million. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I assure Members that the balance of Ksh13.7 billion which was captured in the Supplementary Budget will continue. The Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Finance and National Treasury has assured the Committee that the weekly disbursement of Ksh2 billion will continue and by 30th June 2021, these disbursements would have been concluded and each constituency would have received their share of the allocation of NG-CDF. We want to ensure that nothing is carried forward from this financial year to the next financial year. This is an understanding we have had with the National Treasury. We hope that what happened in the previous years will not happen now. We are working together to ensure that apart from what was captured in the Supplementary Budget, there is the element of Ksh4.9 billion which is brought forward from the previous years, 2010/2011, 2011/2012, 2012/2013, 2013/2014 and 2014/2015. These arrears, according to the National Treasury, was supposed to be subjected to discussion audit before they are released. As you are aware, when it comes to the projects in the NG-CDF and particularly, there is a provision in Section 6 and Section 7, I invite Members to look at that because I am not going to make reference to it now. If you look at Sections 6 and 7, they make it clear that all funds for NG-CDF, whether carried forward or not, will have to be released to the constituencies. Therefore, what we only require is an audit and verification to ensure that this amount that was brought forward is due to certain constituencies for particular projects and if it has not been released, it should be released. So, we are appealing for this to also be captured, if there will be Supplementary Budget II or in the main Budget, so that we make sure that no money is carried forward. This is what I wanted to assure Members. 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."
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