{"id":593446,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/593446/?format=json","text_counter":24,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Lessonet","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":67,"legal_name":"Moses Lessonet","slug":"moses-lessonet"},"content":"Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to appreciate the concerns of all of us Members and our Constituencies Development Funds Committees (CDFCs) that monies for the CDF for the 2015/2016 Financial Year to date have not been disbursed. We are very much in touch with the National Treasury in pursuit of these monies. A total of Kshs35 billion is the allocation for the 2015/2016 Financial Year. Like I have said, we are in touch with the National Treasury. They have appeared before our Committee to discuss this issue. They have given an undertaking that today they will remit Kshs2 billion to the CDF Board. Thereafter they will be able to remit another Kshs2 billion every week. So, probably on Tuesday, next week, I will be able to give an update of the Kshs2 billion they are telling us is on transit now from the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) to our account. The CDF Board on the other hand is equally ready to promptly disburse the Kshs2 billion to 88 constituencies so that next week when the next Kshs2 billion comes in, they will be able to disburse it to another 88 constituencies. We want to work together with the leadership of this House and the rest of us to make sure that the National Treasury complies with that requirement. By the time we closed the last financial year on 30th of June, 2015, they had succeeded to remit a total of Kshs31 billion out of Kshs33 billion allocated to the last financial year. This means that we carried forward arrears of Kshs2.3 billion to this financial year. We are on their toes to make sure they comply with the CDF Act of quarterly remittance. Hon. Speaker, the National Treasury has insisted to us that they are facing serious cash flow problems but they have accepted that this week and thereafter, they will give priority to the CDF. So, we shall keep monitoring on a weekly basis to ensure that there is compliance. I thank you, Hon. Speaker."}