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    "id": 1081430,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1081430/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kanduyi, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Wafula Wamunyinyi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 291,
        "legal_name": "Athanas Misiko Wafula Wamunyinyi",
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    "content": "Budget, reduce, add and make provisions for what has not been provided for. So, it is merely a process of reorganisation and to capture what might not have been captured elsewhere. Having said that, I want to state that as the Chair of the National Government Constituencies Development Fund Committee (NG-CDF), the NG-CDF Board has received full allocation for this financial year. A total of Kshs41 billion earmarked for the Financial Year 2020/2021 has been received. However, part of the money for this year has been expended on arrears. The previous allocations, which were not disbursed, amount to over Kshs18 billion. The Kshs13.78 billion for the Financial Year 2019/2020 and about Kshs4.9 billion for financial years 2011/2012, 2013/2014 and 2014/2015, put together bring the arrears to about Kshs4.9 billion. I want to commend the Budget and Appropriations Committee because they accepted to capture the Kshs13.78 billion in the Supplementary Estimates I. Therefore, this is what the Treasury is releasing in the weekly disbursements, so that the arrears for 2019/2020 are completed. We had requested for Kshs4.9 billion to be captured in the Supplementary Estimates II or in the main Budget. This has not happened, but I would like it to go on record that the NG-CDF Act is very clear about money that has not been released by the Treasury to the NG-CDF Board."
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