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    "id": 775912,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "It is my Motion, but I will talk to the Member. You know the office of the Leader of the Majority Party puts you between a rock and a hard place. But I will talk to Hon. Onyonka. He is a ranking Member; I served with him in the 10th Parliament. Hon. Onyonka’s constituency is one constituency in which elections were not held on 8th August 2017. When we were passing lists of the other 289 constituencies, he was still campaigning; he was still looking for the seat. I am sure this House will be very fair to him. If we pass this list and then the Board and the Ministry gazette it, he can have time to deal with the matters of his constituency. Number two, the National Treasury has been releasing close to Kshs2 billion every week diligently to the Board, so there is enough money at the Board. I talked to the CEO of the Board yesterday, I do not know why the chair of the NG-CDF committee is not here, and the Board confirmed to me that over 80 constituencies have not submitted their project proposals. That is an indictment on us the leadership. If your constituency is one of the 80 that have not submitted their proposals, then I do not know how else you want to serve your people. The NG-CDF is very important, Hon. Deputy Speaker. You are a sitting Member of a constituency. So colleagues I want to urge that please let us submit. The rest that have submitted, the Board is approving the project proposals as they come. And I am sure in the next 10 days we must have at least 50 or 30 or 40 per cent of the funds for 2017/2018 Budget in our accounts. Number three, which is very important, there was a certain amount of the NG-CDF allocation that was not factored in the Supplementary Estimates of 2017. We are telling both the NG-CDF committee of this House and the Budget and Appropriations Committee that when the CS for National Treasury appears before you, you must now regularise that item so that each constituency can get its Kshs105 million. So Members in those committees and all of us together because we are going to approve the Budget Policy Statement and the Budget in this House, let us make sure that through the current Estimates we bring back the money that we lost in the Supplementary Estimates. The NG-CDF is great and I am sure all of us, now that we have a committee of this House dealing with those matters, they must up their game and make sure that they protect the interest of this fund for the benefit of our constituencies and voters. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to move and ask one of the few surgeons in this House, Hon. Pukose to second."
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