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    "id": 1092450,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mathare, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Anthony Oluoch",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Tom Oluoch",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I support all that my colleagues before me have said. I just wanted to tie in one small point that we must not lose. I support the request for a Statement by Hon. Keter. The point has been made and it is Hon. Jared Okelo who raised the question of how we deal with delayed disbursement of funds for the NG- CDF. The truth of the matter is that the NG-CDF is what has contributed to 80 to 90 per cent of the infrastructure that we see in our schools. There is a practice, and I have seen it now for the three years that I have been here, that towards the tail-end of a financial year, the Government will withhold disbursement of funds to counties. I am reliably informed that there is a practice of withholding monies meant for the NG- CDF as a parliamentary term approaches its tail-end. I would, therefore, encourage Hon. Jared Okello to not only hope that the Statement will come from the Chair, Hon. Wamunyinyi, but also request for a specific statement on how this issue will be dealt with; the rationale or justification for slowing down disbursements of NG-CDF monies because we are going for an election. We know that there are Cabinet Secretaries, Principal Secretaries and other Government officials who are getting ready to run for our seats, but their monies and programmes are not being slowed down. Under Article 95 of the Constitution, we are the people who disburse funds. How do we disburse funds for other Government agencies when the very things that we ought to implement through the NG-CDF are slowed down towards the-tail end of the financial year? Even as we look at this request for Statement and 100 per cent transition, the issue of how infrastructure funds have been spent has been discussed here many times. I would encourage that beyond the request, Hon. Keter, we should consider constituting a select committee to conduct a special audit of the monies we set aside for infrastructure funding for the last four years. At the end of the inquiry, we should say that in the budget that is coming or that which we already passed, we should make sure that school infrastructure development money should be given to the NG- CDF as conditional grants to implement such projects. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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