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    "content": "I will talk about the NGAAF. I can hear lovely voices from the able Woman Representatives. I will talk about it. In this Appropriations Bill, we have also added two things in respect to the NG-CDF and the NGAAF. Starting with the NGAAF, the Woman Representatives in this House are aware that their activities have been handicapped in the past because of coordinators and because we needed funds to facilitate unlocking the money that has already been provided in the main budget. We have provided enough money in this regard through this Appropriations Bill. Regarding the NG-CDF, there are over 200 constituencies which have arrears for the last financial year to a tune of Kshs12 million per constituency. Through this Appropriations Bill, when the President assents to it by Friday, we are going to unlock the Kshs12 million per constituency which are in arrears and they should be paid any time after the assent of this Bill by His Excellency the President. We have provided Kshs2.9 billion in that regard and we have actually factored in entirety the arrears on the NG-CDF. Hon. Speaker, as I finish, there are other important matters that we have done. I talked about the teachers yesterday. We have passed Article 223 expenditure to the teacher’s recruitment which is ongoing for junior secondary schools (JSS) and we have also allocated an additional Kshs9 billion through this Appropriations Bill for the capitation of JSS. We have done this because the essence of JSS and the Competence Based Curriculum (CBC) is that we do not want to push the burden to parents and the President gave us direct commitment that he wants the JSS learners and their parents not to carry the extra burden. The Government is, therefore, capitalising every learner through capitation money that we have already included in this Appropriations Bill to a tune of Kshs9 billion. Hon. Speaker, there are many other areas which I will give an opportunity to other Members to comment on. If you permit, I would like to call upon Hon. Dan Mwashako to second this Appropriations Bill. I beg to move. Thank you."
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