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"speaker_name": "Kanduyi, FORD-K",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Wafula Wamunyinyi",
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"content": "the NG-CDF Committees to embark on preparation of project proposals for this Financial Year. The Board has since deliberated on all the 290 project proposals from the constituencies. Hon. Speaker, Section 39 (2) provides that disbursement of funds to the Constituency Fund Account shall be effected at the beginning of the first quarter of each financial year with an initial amount equivalent to twenty-five per centum of the annual allocation for the constituency and thereafter the Constituency Fund Account shall be replenished in three equal instalments at the beginning of the second, third and fourth quarters of the financial ear. Pursuant to this section, this being the third quarter of the financial year, the expected receipts to date amounts to Kshs31,286,000,000 out of which Kshs22,428,000,000 has been received leaving a balance of Ksh8.857,000,000 which has not been received to date. Because of the alleged reported non-performance of the economy, we had agreed with the Cabinet Secretary that he would release funds in equal instalments of Kshs2 billion per week from the last Financial Year. Going by this undertaking, the Cabinet Secretary released up to 24th November, 2021 a total of Kshs20 billion. With regard to the current Financial Year, on 12th January, he released Kshs2 billion, making it a total of Ksh22,428,700,000. We had some pending receipts amounting to Kshs4.9 billion from Financial Years 2011/2012, 2013/2014 and 2014/2015 that have not been released. The NG-CDF Committee set up a Sub-Committee that established that the funds have not been received. A Report was tabled in this House and debated. This House adopted that Report with a resolution that the Treasury should be compelled to release the funds to the NG-CDF Committees. It was agreed that these funds would to be included in the Supplementary Budget that we expect to be brought to the House any time. I am, however, informed these funds are not part of what is going to be tabled in the House. I am not sure whether that is the position or not since I have not seen the Supplementary Estimates. If that is the correct position, it means that we are going to continue doing without the pending receipts amounting to Kshs4.9 billion. Details of these releases and pending receipts are in a Report that I will table. Members can access it from the Table Office or Room Eight as it is popularly known. Section 7 (2) of the NG-CDF Act 2015, as amended in 2016, provides that all funds allocated to a constituency shall be cumulative and shall be carried forward from one financial year to the next, including funds returned into the accounts in accordance with Section 6 (3) or funds which are not utilised for whatever reasons. Section 40 of the Act further provides that the Board shall ensure that the list of projects forwarded to it by each constituency is, upon approval, funded in accordance with the Act. Coming back to this financial year, out of the Kshs22.428 billion that was received, the Board has disbursed Kshs19,209,800,000 to the constituencies while Kshs1.2 billion has been disbursed to the Board for its activities. The amount was disbursed to various constituencies and the Secretariat as follows: (i) About 274 constituencies have received between 47 per cent and 57 per cent of funds allocated, amounting to Ksh18,409,800,000; (ii) Sixteen constituencies have received 36 per cent of funds allocated, amounting to Kshs800 million; and, (iii) Kshs1.2 billion has been disbursed to the Board. The Board is in the process of disbursing Kshs2 billion which was received on 12th January 2022 and held in its Central Bank account. We had hoped that more funds would be received so that a larger amount can be released to the constituencies. Since no more funds have been received 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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