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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ethuro",
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        "legal_name": "Ekwee David Ethuro",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to thank you for the opportunity to move this Motion. I want to rise under Standing Order No.48 which talks about amendment of notice of Motion. It says:- “The Speaker may permit a Member to move in amended form, a Motion of which notice has been given if in the opinion of the Speaker the amendment does not materially alter any principle embodied in the Motion of which notice has been given” Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I, therefore, wish to move the following Motion:- THAT, being deeply concerned that the disbursements to CDF have been below the stipulated rate thus accumulating arrears of up to Kshs 1.6 billion; further concerned by the failure of the responsible Minister to honour invitations to appear before the Constituencies Funds Committee to deliberate on the same; aware that the Minister has persistently allocated less than 2.5% of all government ordinary revenue collected in every financial year to the CDF in contravention of Sec 4(2) (a) of the CDF Act of 2003 and as amended in 2007; conscious that failure to make full remittances has in some cases contributed to delayed CDF project implementation at grassroots and impacted negatively on the fund’s core objective of poverty alleviation; this House resolves that the Ministry of Finance remits all the outstanding shortfall in remittances to the CDF with immediate effect. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to amend the Motion by deleting Kshs1.6 billion and replacing it with Kshs5.18 billion. I will explain why that figure has gone that far. The amended Motion should therefore read as follows:- THAT, being deeply concerned that the disbursements to CDF have been below the stipulated rate thus accumulating arrears of up to Kshs5.18 billion; further concerned by the failure of the responsible Minister to honour invitations to appear before the Constituencies Funds Committee to deliberate on the same; aware that the Minister has persistently allocated less than 2.5% of all government ordinary revenue collected in every financial year to the CDF in contravention of Sec 4(2) (a) of the CDF Act of 2003 and as amended in 2007; conscious that failure to make full remittances has in some cases contributed to delayed CDF project implementation at grassroots and impacted negatively on the fund’s core objective of poverty alleviation; this House resolves that the Ministry of Finance remits all the outstanding shortfall in remittances to the CDF with immediate effect. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in amending this Motion in order to allow for the Kshs5.18 billion instead of Kshs1.6 billion which was a result of taking into account only one disbursement, there are two issues that inform this debate. The law requires that the Government shall allocate not less than 2.5 per cent. In effect, it means the Government can allocate up to 100 per cent if they so wish. We are, therefore, looking at the amount between what should have been allocated to the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) in terms of all ordinary revenue and what was put in the Printed Estimates. That portion of the money we are looking for comes to about Kshs3.42 billion. In the year 2004/2005, there was a difference of Kshs1.04 billion. In the year 2005/2006, there was a difference of Kshs0.1 billion. In the year 2006/2007 and 2007/2008 financial years, the Treasury gave us slightly above the 2.5 per cent which we appreciated."
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