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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. John Mbadi",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury and Economic Planning",
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    "content": "The other question is why not pay all the NG-CDF money by the first Quarter. This is a very thought-provoking idea, which I already thought about. We have a very constrained period between January and May. That period is usually very bad in terms of Exchequer releases. I am thinking of trying to do as much as we possibly can to disburse the money between July and October. We will do that in the next financial year. I wish the pressure that is being applied to me today was applied in the last Financial Year. Since the pressure was not applied then, the carryover of Ksh13 billion came to me. Now, if you added that Ksh13 billion to the Ksh21 billion that I have disbursed, we would be at Ksh44 billion. That would be almost 70 per cent of the NG-CDF. I have disbursed the money that was supposed to be disbursed in the last Financial Year, and I am not getting any credit for it. Just put pressure on me so that in the next financial year we do not have the same story. Hon. Gisairo’s question about the Ksh21 is a repetition. Hon. Mary Emaase, you have asked about external finances. Yes, it is true that it is now becoming clear that we are unlocking the external finances. There were some precedent conditions which we have since met. I want to hesitate from making a commitment with money that has not come. If that money comes, I will do more than I have promised. I want to make sure that by the end of this Financial Year, we clear all the Ksh68 billion for the NG-CDF. We can only be able to do that when we get money – making sure that we enhance the allocation. I have addressed the question by Hon. Farah Maalim on an undertaking of Ksh7 billion. On Hon. Kirima’s question as to whether I am aware that development in the constituencies is undertaken through NG-CDF, yes, I am a Kenyan. I walk in the villages. I know what is happening. We also hope that counties use their monies prudently. That was the essence of devolution. We cannot go back on devolution. It is there in the Constitution, and we gave it to ourselves."
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