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    "id": 367064,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Korir",
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        "legal_name": "Wesley Kipchumba Korir",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support the Motion as amended but, first, I would like to congratulate the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee for the good work he has done so far. I will start with the issue of delayed disbursement of funds. In order for us to move forward, as a country, we must make sure that monies provided in each year’s Budget go where they are supposed to go. An issue like the one we had yesterday, of Kshs5.4 billion CDF allocation for 2012/2013 Financial Year being pushed to the next financial year; should never arise again. As a country, we need to get rid of that kind of thing. We have a problem with teachers, who secured a salary increment in a collective bargaining agreement several years ago, but the Government has kept on postponing the implementation date of the same over and over again, leading to problems in this country. If you keep on moving a problem forward, you will never solve it. You need to solve it at that particular time. Hon. Speaker, Sir, we have a problem of allocating money to projects, without following it up with disbursement. Farmers wait for fertilizer for a long time. If you go to the Ministry of Agriculture to find out what the problem is, they tell you that they do not get the funds on time and yet, the money is provided for in the Budget. So, once the Budget is read, any money meant for a project should be released immediately for that project to be implemented immediately. That way, we will be able to solve our problems, as a country, instead of moving them forward all the time. Another point I would like to make is that of putting CDFs under the management of the county governments is wrong. As the hon. Member has asked, is putting CDFs under the county governments’ management devolution or county centralisation? It is, indeed, county centralisation. We should be talking about moving CDF from the constituency-level to the ward and village levels. That is what devolution entails."
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