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    "id": 880531,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Makueni, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Daniel Maanzo",
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kitonga Maanzo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to contribute on this very important Report by the Select Committee on NG-CDF. Quite a number of things have been highlighted, but the most important is on how money has been disbursed, the amounts already given and what is pending. If you go through that list of constituencies, Makueni is one of them, and it has been allocated Kshs109 million. What has been disbursed is Kshs36 million and what is expected to be disbursed is Kshs73 million. You can see how the people of Makueni are disadvantaged by what is happening at the National Treasury with regard to release of this money. This means that development in Makueni and, in fact, in over 90 per cent of the constituencies, is derailed. Most unfortunate is the five constituencies that have not received any money at all. I remember the pressure we had when schools were opening because of bursaries. I can only imagine what is happening in the five constituencies. For whatever reasons, something must be done. One of the reasons given is the balances in respective NG-CDF accounts of the constituencies. When the balance is Kshs10 million, they do not go below. However, we have to think about the administration fee and some pending bills. The issue of bursaries is where delays occur. You issue cheques to respective secondary schools, universities and colleges and by the time they are banked and released, you still have a huge balance covered by bursaries. This should be relooked into so that we can avoid blaming the CEO and the NG-CDF Board for this particular delay. Each constituency should be handled on its own set of facts so that proper explanation is given and it is understood where all the cheques are virtually issued out and the balances are still high because they have not been banked in respective projects. Then you can still release funds to this constituency to avoid the huge balances since this is administrative. Again, there is the issue of the funds account managers. I want to agree that when we were debating the Budget Policy Statement (BPS) and the Budget in the House, this is where we should have given our input on increment of the NG-CDF funding. I am sure this will also come 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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