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    "id": 366206,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Musyimi",
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        "legal_name": "Mutava Musyimi",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, Sir, English is a very simple language and it is very straightforward like all other languages and we have sought to communicate in that language in the hope that all of us can understand simple facts in the manner that I have tried to communicate. I read and for the avoidance of doubt I repeat, could hon. Members, kindly, listen to simple English. My recommendation and that of my Committee was this: “The Appropriations Bill, 2013, includes an additional Kshs5.4 billion to the Ministry of Devolution and Planning for the CDF. This will cater for the shortfall arising from under-provision of the grant in the 2012/2013.” What we discussed with the Cabinet Secretary for Treasury was that this money needs to be in our accounts soonest possible. That will not be possible this financial year. We were given the undertaking that in the first week of July, this money would be in the accounts. I was the first one to make the point to the Cabinet Secretary and after we finished our meeting here on Thursday, I was in a CDF meeting in my own constituency the following day on Friday. The very first meeting after the Committee was gazetted and we looked at the concerns such as have been canvassed today. The CDF law as revised this year provides that there will be PMCs and these are very critical instruments in the operationalisation of the CDF Act. In my own constituency, we have not even set the PMCs because we had our first meeting ( technical hitch ). I therefore, wish to say, we are trying to look for a storm in a tea cup. There is no storm here. This matter is very straight forward; the money we are passing will be available--- not the CDF provisional funds. I thank you, hon. Speaker."
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