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    "id": 824869,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Igembe North, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Maoka Maore",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13344,
        "legal_name": "Richard Maore Maoka",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I wish to do a quick update via a Statement on the issue of disbursement of NG-CDF and note that in the 1st June 2018 Executive Order, the Government decided to put NG-CDF under the State Department of Devolution. The Committee has been disturbed by that development since we all know that we are safer when domiciled at the State Department of Planning so that we are under the CS for National Treasury, for the sole purpose of disbursing the funds that have nothing to do with devolution. It is a national project. The issue that has been pending and is still pending is the various arrears, starting from the Financial Year 2011/2012/, 2013/2014 to 2014/2015, amounting to Kshs4,976,750,005. The Committee had an initial engagement with the CS for the National Treasury to provide for the arrears during the Financial Year 2018/2019. What has been put forward as the money meant for the 2018/2019 Financial Year happens to have been mixed up with the arrears. That is a matter of concern; that is why I chose to update the House. In this financial year, we are entitled to Ksh35,758,596,000, which will amount to about Kshs120 million per constituency. If we go by that provision, the Ministry of Devolution has forwarded to us Kshs30,958,596,000, which amounts to about Kshs103 million per constituency. During the deliberations of pushing back and forth, we are in consultation with the CS for the National Treasury and, through the Leader of the Majority Party, the Head of Public Service to bring forward the NG-CDF funds to the State Department for Planning so that we do not have any problem when the money is being disbursed, because the issues that we need to raise from time to time can only be addressed through the National Treasury. That is the status as of now. That is why we are on the seventh week of the new financial year and yet there are no figures which we can deal with in our constituencies when it comes to raising budgets or project proposals. So, for now, Members need to bear with us, but the average The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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