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    "id": 1372831,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugunja, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, first and foremost, the Statement that has been issued by the Chairman of the Committee dealing with NG-CDF, my good friend, Hon. Musa Sirma, is thoroughly underwhelming. At the very least, if we were to take the Chair seriously, we expected him to tell us that this amount of money has since been disbursed to the constituencies NG-CDF accounts, over and above the Ksh10 billion that we received in January. These commitments have been made before, but they have been flouted. It was just on 6th or 7th December when were told that by December, we shall have received money in our accounts. It never happened. Hon. Sirma is coming here today, the 14th of February, still talking about the Ksh10 billion that was released way back in January and yet, they are only remaining with about four-and-a-half months to the end of the financial year. You know that the NG-CDF is not just about bursaries. It is about projects which have been planned for; and projects which have been earmarked to help the people down there. This House must put its foot down. I know that the issue of the exchequer release is affecting many sectors, including roads. Right now, I know we are anticipating the second Supplementary Budget and yet, there are projects which were planned for in the main Budget, way back in June last year that are yet to be implemented. We rushed into the first Supplementary Budget and now we are going to the second one and yet, projects which were planned way back as far as June last year are yet to be implemented as a result of failure of the exchequer release. If there is a problem, we need to be told what it is. As far as the Government is concerned, it continues to collect 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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