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    "id": 1071179,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Alego-Usonga, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Samuel Atandi",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Onunga Atandi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I thank the Chairperson, National Government Constituencies Development Fund Committee, for that Statement and the information that he has given us on disbursements. However, there is something which he needs to clarify. There is the Ksh4.7 billion which he has mentioned and which is not captured in the Budget. What we did in the last Supplementary Budget was to bring back Ksh13.7 billion which will push the disbursements by the end of the financial year to around Ksh110 million per constituency. That means it is about Ksh16 million to Ksh17 million which is not in the Budget. This is where the Chairperson needs to inform the House how that money will be realized by Members. If that is not sorted out, we are going to have a shortage of our allocations and Members will be surprised when the financial year ends and we are in shortage of about Ksh20 million which is not in the Budget. So, the Chairperson, National Government Constituencies Development Fund Committee, needs to make that clarification. Secondly, Hon. Deputy Speaker, because I sit in the Budget and Appropriations Committee, the National Government Constituencies Development Fund Committee needs to do more than waiting to present statements of disbursements. When we were doing the Supplementary Budget, I did not like the performance of the National Government Constituencies Development Fund Committee before us. They need to push the National 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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