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    "id": 1238928,
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    "speaker_name": "Kitui Rural, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Mwalika",
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    "content": "Central, in Kitui Rural it should not cost Ksh1.5 million. That will not make any technical sense. The other thing that the NG-CDF is facing – this is very serious – is delayed disbursement and underutilisation of funds. As we speak, we have undisbursed funds from the previous financial year of Ksh2 billion which we should push to get. My biggest worry is that, up to now we have not received even 50 per cent of the NG-CDF and we only have one month of June to go. If we go to the next financial year with Ksh20 billion undisbursed funds of the NG-CDF, what will happen? We will have to wait for the supplementary budget which will be a challenge. The Ksh2 billion was previously Ksh4 billion. In the 12th Parliament, we managed to squeeze Ksh2 billion out of the National Treasury and we had a balance of Ksh2 billion. Now, if you have Ksh10 billion undisbursed plus the Ksh2 billion, that will be Ksh12 billion. How will we get that money? We need to push the National Treasury. The good news is that, I was in Washington for the 2023 Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank promised to give us US$1 billion. I read in the newspapers today that there is another organisation which is giving us US$400 billion. So, as Parliament, we should push to be given all our NG-CDF money before the end of this month so that we can complete the projects that we are supposed to implement. Lastly, is on sharing of the NG-CDF. This is a very big issue. In the last Parliament, we passed that we are going to use wards. I do not think that is a viable policy. Most of the NG- CDF money goes to schools. We should use the number of schools in an area. Imagine, a Member who represents a constituency in Nairobi has less than 10 schools whereas the rest of us have more than 200 schools yet we are given the same amount of money. Is that not discrimination? Let us think. The data of schools and their enrolment is with the Ministry of Education. For me, that will be the best method to use to get fair share distribution of the NG- CDF money. With those few remarks, I support."
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