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    "content": "this issue in detail--- Sometimes we need to bring to their attention what they are missing, which they do not know. Maybe the Government side has more money to spend. The CDF Act is very clear about how much and the quantum of CDF money which are supposed to be disbursed to constituencies. It says very clearly: “Amounts that are either equal to or not less than 2.5 per cent.” For the last five years, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance has been short changing the CDF as a Fund. There are monies unremitted which should have rightly been used in our constituencies. I am currently trucking water to over 20 villages with populations exceeding 10,000 people, and here are monies which the people of Bura are entitled to, and which the Constitution and the CDF Act guarantees but the people at Treasury could just sit as technocrats and say: “Okay. This is the amount we will devolve to the CDF,” without regard to the law. A total of Kshs7.4 billion is in accruals for CDF. These are monies which would have made a very big difference in the constituencies of these hon. Members, including Mr. Githae’s Constituency. We have tried to bring this to the attention of the people in Treasury and told them: “This is the law and they cannot flout it.” If there are limits which have been set within the law for the remittance of the CDF money, then they just have to comply. Some of us even wanted to shoot down the Supplementary Estimates, not only because we want monies in our constituencies, but because people are flouting the rules, regulations and the law. This is not a country where we decide which part of the law to accept and which one to disregard. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to finish with the two issues of Stimulus and emergencies. They want to wind up the Stimulus Package or Programme that they brought on board. We will not force them to do that but, at least, for it to have relevance, then they have to complete the projects and not only winding up for the sake of it. We have schools which have been constructed with two classrooms. I do not know whether students nowadays complete secondary education at Form II. They need two more classrooms. We also have health facilities which have just been started and need more upgrading. So, if the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance would like to wind up this programme, then they have to do it in a manner that is meticulous and that makes sense in order for us not to have projects which we would labelled “elephant projects”. On emergencies, we have drought year in, year out. If it is up to the wisdom of people in that Ministry and Government to decide that we can only put aside monies for emergencies when they arise, then it is a pity. Every time we come to this House to complain that drought has come, the Government only releases monies after we start counting to them how many people are dead in our constituencies. We have to come and give evidence of death certificates of people who died because they could not access water. That is the time the Government would declare that drought is a disaster and release funds. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the recommendations that have been forwarded by the Committee are very critical and the Government has to take them very seriously if they want us to pass that Budget come June, 2011."
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