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    "id": 1294874,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1294874/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ababu Namwamba",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Youth Affairs and Sports",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I will go quickly to the question on the financial management, including the book of accounts for grants and subsidies as well as the latest report on disbursement and procurement processes within the Sports, Arts and Social Development Fund. I report to this House that over the last five years, this Fund has realized total revenues from betting activities because this is a betting levy, amounting to Kshs48 billion. In that period of five years, the Fund has disbursed Kshs41,793,444,631. Of that disbursement, records indicate that the sports sector got 65 per cent, 30 per cent in the social development sector and five per cent to the arts and culture. Social development includes health care and education, among the areas the Fund has supported is the roll-out of the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and the school feeding programmess in schools. Those are some of the social development interventions that the Fund has supported in that period. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in the last Financial Year 2022/2023, the Fund had revenues of Kshs10,427,518,883. The Oversight Board which is the organ responsible for authorizing disbursement approved disbursement amounting to Kshs7,951,585,000 to various sectors, Kshs6.3 billion, Kshs1.2 billion to social development and Kshs324 million to the culture and arts sector. We have annexed to these submissions, the audited financial statement for the Financial Year 2021/2022, which is marked as annexed 3 – summary of revenue and disbursements to various sectors from the year 2018/2019 to 2022/2023. All those are provided as annexures to these submissions as well. As far as procurement is concerned, this is done under the Public Procurement and Assets Disposal Act, 2015 and the Regulations thereunder of 2020."
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