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    "id": 695531,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lessonet",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Lessonet",
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    "content": "keenly to comments and questions by Hon. Ochieng’, Hon. Pukose, Hon. Onyura, Hon. Emaase, Hon. John Serut, Hon. Kombe and, of course, the wise comments by Hon. Wangamati. I think you need to give Hon. Wangamati opportunity more frequently to dispense words of wisdom to Members like he has done today. The others are Hon. Lentoimaga, Hon. Yusuf Hassan, Hon. Justice Kemei, Hon. Serem and Hon. Gaichuhie. I have noted the concerns in terms of disbursements for the last financial year and also the need to promptly disburse funds for this financial year. I want to confirm that the constituencies which had not received all their money for the 2015/2016 Financial Year, as I speak, disbursements are on transit to the constituencies. If the funds were not there yesterday and are not there today, I am confident and ready to be quoted that the funds for the 2015/2016 Financial Year are on transit to the constituencies. Like Hon. Gaichuhie has mentioned, we passed an amendment to the NG-CDF Act, which requires that money henceforth shall be shared equally among the 290 constituencies. I want to congratulate Hon. Gaichuhie for being proactive. It is fairly easy to determine how much each constituency will get. It will be Kshs25 billion, less 5 per cent to be used by the Board, and balance will be divided equally. Each Member of Parliament should have known by now their ceiling for this financial year. That notwithstanding, I still undertake to bring the exact figure this afternoon, which takes care of other matters like allocation to emergency and the maximum allocation to administration. I will bring that this afternoon, so that constituencies can also promptly give the national Government the projects that they want to finance this financial year. We have discussed with the Cabinet Secretary, National Treasury, Mr. Henry Rotich, the urgency in terms of the promptness of disbursing funds and I can see commitment on their part, in that they have already disbursed Kshs8 billion for this quarter, which is already with the NG- CDF Board. Immediately we bring projects, the Board will disburse the same to the constituencies. Like I said earlier, indulge me until this afternoon and I will come with a more comprehensive, convincing and informative report for the Members. Hon. Speaker, I really want to thank you for recalling the House for this one day, so that Members can properly be informed on matters NG-CDF and we can listen to them like we have done this morning. We are ready to listen to them again this afternoon. With those remarks, I thank you."
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