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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Oparanya",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister of State for Planning, National Development and Vision 2030",
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        "legal_name": "Wycliffe Ambetsa Oparanya",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to take this opportunity to thank all the hon. Members of this House for overwhelmingly supporting this Ministry's Vote. All those hon. Members who spoke, except one, supported the Vote. I am happy that hon. Members have recognised the challenges facing the Ministry. Of course, they have come up with quite good ideas, which will help my Ministry's officials to improve the way we plan and do other things. I will respond to some of the specific issues raised by hon. Members, starting with the CDF. Hon. Members have rightly said that we need to increase the CDF allocation to more than 2.5 per cent of the Ordinary Revenue. Parliament agreed that the CDF to be 2.5 per cent of ordinary revenue. Having said that, I would like to clarify that the decision to increase the CDF allocation is not within my purview, but rather within the purview of the Minister for Finance. However, I have noted the sentiments of hon. Members. I will take up the issue with the Minister concerned. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, before I continue to respond to other issues, I want to specifically respond to issues raised by the Chairman of the CDF Select Committee. It should be noted that I was a Member of the last Parliament, which came up with the CDF Act. During that time, I was a Member of the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade. Therefore, as a Member of that Committee, I got involved in the development of the CDF Act. In fact, Mr. Midiwo was also a Member of the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade, and he can attest to that. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, during that time, Mr. Ethuro was an Assistant Minister in the then Ministry of Planning and National Development. The hon. Member raised the issue of the CDF allocation being Kshs10.1 billion instead of Kshs11.6 billion, to which I agree. The amount of Kshs10.1 billion is the figure that was read out by the Minister for Finance when he presented the National Budget to this House. When I did some calculations and established that the correct figure would have been Kshs11.6 billion, I took up the matter with the Minister, who responded positively and said that he would consider including the Kshs1.6 billion in the Supplementary Estimates."
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