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    "id": 1143741,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Aldai, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Cornelly Serem",
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        "legal_name": "Cornelly Serem",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I am so disappointed with the response from the Chair. The Cabinet Secretary has consistently violated the law in releasing funds. If you are the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and you are supposed to release funds every quarter, and we have received less funds for this quarter against the law, what happens? Two, how many times do we have to raise this issue in this House? Do we have to protest so that we are given funds? We are talking about engaging the leadership of this House. I am sure the Cabinet Secretary is watching us. He does not have to watch us. He is supposed to comply with the law and release the funds to our constituencies. In the last financial year, I rose in this House and said that without releasing the arrears there would be no Budget. I make the same statement today. If by the time the Leader of the Majority Party will be tabling the Supplementary Budget we have no CDF money in our accounts, the Supplementary Budget will be shot down. We do not have to raise more issues that touch on the Government. If the Government is not willing to finance our children, we will shoot down any Motion sponsored by it until we have the funds in our constituency accounts. How many times do we have to raise issues that touch on our children? From reliable sources, the arrears have not been captured in the Supplementary Budget. The Kshs4.9 billion debt to our constituencies has not been included in the Supplementary Budget. I have enough information. I do not have to come here again and make threats about shooting down the Supplementary Budget when the Leader of the Majority Party is seated here. We require these funds unconditionally for our children. The Members who are here, whether they belong to the Government or the Opposition, require this money like yesterday. Since I am sure that the Cabinet Secretary is watching me, we want the funds as quickly as possible. Our children need the funds. Contractors that have been engaged to work on projects in our constituencies should be paid unconditionally. I do not have to raise the same issue here, Hon. Chairman. If you have to engage the Cabinet Secretary, do so. If you have to engage the Chairman, do so. If you have to engage the Speaker, do so. Otherwise, the Supplementary Budget tabled before this House will go down. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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