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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as agreed with hon. Members, I have also allocated a further Kshs1.8 billion as arrears owed to CDF, bringing the total allocation to CDF to Kshs19 billion, which translates to an average of Kshs90.5 million on average per constituency countrywide. Considering the need to complete the many projects initiated by hon. Members to assure the improvement of the wellbeing of our people, I consider it appropriate that I extend a conditional grant to the CDF Board amounting to Kshs3.7 billion or Kshs17.8 million per constituency, towards completion of the ongoing projects under education, health, water and sanitation, in readiness for handing over to the new county governments. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is the highest ever direct allocation to the CDF amounting to approximately on average Kshs108.3 million per constituency. I am confident that hon. Members will, indeed, do a splendid job with these resources to further the devolved development agenda. The amount does not, however, include other resources that I am channeling directly to constituencies under this Budget such as the Kshs28.3 million towards constituency roads, Kshs6.4 million towards water provision in each of the 170 constituencies and Kshs30 million for water in 35 constituencies in the ASAL areas and other decentralized resources targeted towards bursary, youth sports, youth labour- intensive empowerment, among others as I will elaborate below. These resources that we have devolved for grassroots level development do not include the Kshs40 billion that will be disbursed under LATF or the Kshs12.3 billion in previous years. Agricultural development remains a top priority towards addressing rural poverty, unemployment and food security. Through agricultural development, we shall also provide agro-processing and value addition that will drive our export led growth and create employment for our people. I wish to correct some misinterpretations often made about funding to the agricultural sector. In assessing whether adequate resources are allocated to this sector, it is important to also consider allocations under complementing services such as water and irrigation, environmental conservation, livestock, fisheries development, as well as special policies targeted at small-scale and traditional farmers in rural areas as per the definition of the Maputo Declaration. Demonstrating the importance we attach to this sector in driving our development agenda, if we take the above definition of our total allocation to the agricultural sector as per the Maputo Declaration, this amounts to approximately Kshs100 billion, which is about 11 per cent of the total Ministerial expenditures. This is above the 10 per cent commitment we made under the Maputo Declaration, putting Kenya among the community of nations that have met this condition."
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