{"id":114594,"date":"2025-05-05T06:03:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T06:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/05\/05\/mps-hold-public-forum-on-entrenching-key-devolved-funds-in-constitution\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T06:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T06:03:15","slug":"mps-hold-public-forum-on-entrenching-key-devolved-funds-in-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/mps-hold-public-forum-on-entrenching-key-devolved-funds-in-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"MPs hold public forum on entrenching key devolved funds in Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya May 5 \u2013 Members of Parliament are set to kick-off nationwide public hearings on the Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill, 2025, which seeks to anchor the National Government Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF) in the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>The Bill aims to secure the NG-CDF, the Senate Oversight Fund, and the National Government Affirmative Action Fund (NGAAF) in the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>The hearings will take place in all 290 constituencies and 47 counties from today and Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The public forums will be held from 8 am to 5 pm in each MP\u2019s constituency office and at the offices of the 47 County Women Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Submissions can be made via email to the Clerk of the National Assembly or delivered in person to the Main Parliament Buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Clerk of the National Assembly says all submissions must be received by June 10.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya May 5 \u2013 Members of Parliament are set to kick-off nationwide public hearings on the Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill, 2025, which seeks to anchor the National Government Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF) in the Constitution. The Bill aims to secure the NG-CDF, the Senate Oversight Fund, and the National Government Affirmative Action Fund [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}