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    "id": 790819,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kisang",
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        "legal_name": "William Kipkemoi Kisang",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. As the Departmental Committee on Communication, Information and Innovation, we have discussed this matter with the Cabinet Secretary in charge of ICT on several occasions. What the Chairman of the Committee on the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) needs to tell us is why the NG-CDF Board made this a mandatory requirement. If you do not put up the four ICT hubs, your proposal for 2017/2018 will not be approved. So, that is where there is a contention. But, as a Committee, we have called the CS and discussed. Since this is the House that passes the Budget for the national Government, we are in discussions and we are proposing to remove this allocation from the NG-CDF and channel the funds through the Ministry in charge of ICT so that it can implement the ICT hubs in every constituency. We do not have to do all the four at once. There are some constituencies with seven wards, some with six and others with three. So, we need to phase out these Constituencies Innovation Centers. But before we conclude discussion of the Budget for 2018/2019, we need to look at the 2017/2018 Financial Year’s allocation. It should be budgeted through the Ministry in charge of ICT so that we do not have to use the resources that are factored under NG-CDF as demanded by the NG-CDF Board. That is what we are discussing. Before we break for recess, we would want the Cabinet Secretary to commit so that we put money into the Budget for 2018/2019 instead of using the NG-CDF."
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