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    "id": 719877,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/719877/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 181,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kasuti",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1884,
        "legal_name": "Suleiman Murunga Kasuti",
        "slug": "suleiman-murunga-kasuti"
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    "content": "County governments should be told that it is now time to send their budgets to the National Treasury. We have been talking about these things for the last three or four years. We should now ask them to send itemised budgets, so that we can know how the money will be spent. For example, we have managed to spend the money given through the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) on the various items that were budgeted for. Spending currently stands at 100 per cent. Lately, we have had no cases of people being accused of misappropriation. That is one way of making sure that the money sent to various destinations is spent on items that it is meant for. If you go to the ground, you will find the things for which the money was allocated and no issues will be raised as to how the money is spent. We cannot continue talking about corruption yet we are not doing anything to ensure that we stop it. This is a song that everybody sings about and we must cut it off and ensure that it does not take place in our society. With regard to the various items that have been put in the Bill, whereas it is said that the amount of money the national Government allocates to the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) should be paid as reimbursement of the various bills that have been incurred by the county governments, this will be nearly impossible. County governments are known not to spend the money they ask for, but inflate their bills in order to get reimbursement. The money will then be diverted to other things that are not meant to be reimbursed in the various counties. The national Government, at the time of sending out this money, should look into how we can ensure that the money that goes to county governments is, indeed, for the NHIF claims as itemised in the various requests to the national Government from county governments. At this juncture, I would like to thank all the Members of Parliament in the National Assembly who have elevated the expenditure of the NG-CDF. This time it has been spent well. The results that were published by the NG-CDF show how various constituencies have performed in the expenditure of the NG-CDF. We were 10th nationwide in Kimilili, second in western and top in Bungoma County. The President himself said that, that is the only way he reaches out to mashinani in various counties. The NG-CDF is the only project that is really felt by wananchi in various counties as a national Government project. I would like to urge the National Treasury to continue making sure that they fund NG-CDF projects as quickly as they can, so that these projects continue taking place in various constituencies for the benefit of all"
}