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    "id": 1279034,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I beg to give notice of the following Motion: THAT, pursuant to the provision of Standing Order 28(4) This House resolves to alter its calendar for the Second Regular Session as adopted on Wednesday, 15th February 2023 by varying the period for the long recess with respect to the Second Part of the Session so that the long recess commences on Friday, 25th August 2023, and ends on Monday, 25th September 2023. The House resumes regular sittings on Tuesday, 26th September 2023, to commence the Third Part of the Session. As Members are aware, according to the calendar we approved at the beginning of the year, we were to proceed on recess next week on 25th August 2023 and resume on 19th August 2023. That would have given us a very short recess. Usually, we schedule recesses for about four or five weeks. Therefore, we just want to increase that by a week so that you have more time. As you are aware, we begun the new financial year at the time we resumed this Session. With that, after the short two-week recess, Members were able to use that time to deploy National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) resources sent to their constituencies. Our Women Representatives had the National Government Affirmative Action Fund (NGAAF) resources. That was to ensure there is public participation in the implementation of those projects and offer meaningful oversight on projects that were to be implemented from the last financial year. Hon. Speaker, Members are also aware that disbursements of Government Exchequer have begun. We hope that we will be getting disbursements for the new financial year in due course, both from the NGAAF and the NG-CDF. Therefore, as it is the norm, Members are required to begin submitting their NG-CDF proposals for the next financial year. I think the National NG-CDF Board is about to send you memoranda asking for project proposals for this financial year, if they have not. I was saying, if the NG-CDF Board has not sent out memoranda, they are supposed to be issuing them in due course. I was hoping the Chair of the NG-CDF Committee was here. The National NG-CDF Board should issue memoranda asking you to submit your proposals for this financial year. You ought to have done public participation on those proposals. We want to ensure Members have adequate time during that recess to ensure that they are able to go round all their wards, engage with wananchi in your constituencies, review proposals that wananchi and communities have submitted to your NG- CDF offices. That is in line with your mandate as Members of Parliament, ensuring there is 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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