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    "id": 366220,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/366220/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon Katoo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 199,
        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
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    "content": "Very good! Hon. Speaker, let me correct the Chairperson of Budget and Appropriations Committee. He is not getting it right. The amount not yet disbursed is Kshs11.7 billion, but the amount which is in this Supplementary Budget is Kshs6.3 billion; that leaves you with an allocation of Kshs5.4 billion, which the Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee is asking to be delayed. That is the mathematics. What is left for CDF in the whole country for this financial year, ending in 11 days’ time is Kshs11.7 billion. But what you have put in the Supplementary Estimates is Kshs6.3 billion. So, you are asking for delayed disbursement of Kshs5.4 billion. I am supporting that for this reason. If you look at that report which I do not think many hon. Members have seen, just to bring it to the attention of this House, it says that the reduction relates to an amount of money which was borrowed by the National Government to address other expenditure needs. Taking into account that the absorption of the CDF has been low and it was unlikely that the CDF---"
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