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    "id": 471069,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lati",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2762,
        "legal_name": "Jonathan Lelelit Lati",
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    "content": "One thing that the CDF Board is failing to do in this country is to publicize the work done by CDF across our nation. They should have enough money to advertise in the daily newspapers and show the good work that CDF has done. They should make sure that the success story of CDF is seen by everybody in our county so that those people against it can see that there are communities that are wholly dependent on it. The other thing that they need to put across is that CDF is one of the few funds in this county where expenditure in terms of administration is fixed so that almost 95 per cent of the fund goes to development. If we were to do that with the county funds, we would do a lot more work. We also need to make sure that the lowest constituency in this country receives Kshs.100 million. We did that through the budget committee and the workings of the CDF Committee but the National Treasury frustrated our efforts. The lowest constituency last year was Lamu East and it was given Kshs.60 million. We worked out a formula to take Lamu East to Kshs.100 million. We need to multiply Lamu’s money by a factor of 1.67. We agreed with the National Treasury but for some reason, they went against that after the passing of the Budget Policy Statement by this House and this was illegal. The National Treasury bypassed what this House had passed in the Budget Policy Statement. We should have taken Lamu East as the lowest constituency, to Kshs.100 million and all other constituencies would have been at about Kshs.130 million or so. It is good that the National Treasury understands that money that is put in CDF is the best in this country in terms of projects, because almost 95 per cent of it goes into The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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