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"speaker_name": "Kanduyi, FORD-K",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Wafula Wamunyinyi",
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"content": " thank you, Hon. Speaker, for the opportunity. What we are doing is in compliance with the provisions of the NG-CDF Act. As is required, Ksh2.5 per cent of the national government’s share of revenue, as divided by the annual Division of Revenue Act enacted pursuant to Article 218 of the Constitution, is allocated to CDF. We have been given the proposed budget ceiling, which is as per the Division of Revenue Act, 2021. The total shareable revenue is Ksh1,775,624,173,860, out of which Ksh1,398,798,856,427 is allocated to the national government. In the 2021/2022 Financial Year, a total of Ksh41,714,800,000 was allocated to NG-CDF, which translates to Ksh2.98 per cent. This means that the condition set out in section 4 of the Act has been complied with. Further, Section 4(3) of the Act requires that the monies appropriated to the Fund in every financial year shall not be less than that of the previous year. The Board shall, with the approval of the Committee of the National Assembly, allocate funds for every constituency in each FY as provided in section 34. Pursuant to these provisions, I hereby present the list of all the 290 constituencies plus the amount for each constituency, which is Ksh137,088,879. The reason there was delay in presenting this is that as a Committee we had been pushing for enhancement of this amount from within the Funds allocated, to the extent that the Board has taken about 5 per cent, which is about Ksh1.9 billion. The Committee had wanted to reduce this percentage to about 3 per cent or 4 per cent so as to enhance the allocation to constituencies. This will be a small amount of about Ksh2 million to Ksh3 million per constituency. We did not agree to this proposal. We had hoped that we would get the Principal Secretary at the Treasury and Planning and the Board to sit with us so that we could get this done, but it has not been possible. We have agreed, for the sake of ensuring that Members prepare project proposals. We will ask Treasury to release money for the first quarter as we pursue the difference in the proposal we are making. That is where we are. I want to appeal to colleagues to submit their project proposals without delay. On our part, we have already asked the Board to ask the Treasury to release money for the first quarter, so that by December you have money for bursary and to implement projects. There are also a few constituencies that have not received full allocation for the previous financial year."
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