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    "id": 769348,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ogolla",
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Ochanda Ogolla",
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    "content": "managed to use their monies in the last four or five years, and those monies are still with the Board. When a Committee changes, the old Committee cannot transact business but your money is lying with the Board. I think it is our own doing. So, I wanted to remind the House that when requests for submissions are made, please let us try to run out quickly such that these things are submitted early enough. Today we are talking about these constituencies. Remember that out of 290 constituencies, there are only 116 that brought their lists within the time that was required, and in every sitting we have been coming up with lists of two or three constituencies that had not submitted. We are trying to give somebody a scapegoat. Maybe, the Attorney-General might say he is still waiting for the names of other constituencies. So, they will get a scapegoat. I think Members need to be serious to remind their committees and people in the constituencies that some of these things should be done early enough. The other thing that has been brought up is that of oversight. I wanted to remind ourselves without shouting that the oversight role and the oversight personnel that are now prescribed in the NG-CDF Act are people that are supposed to work with the Member of Parliament in overseeing the NG-CDF at the constituency level. Many have been wondering what the oversight arrangement within the NG-CDF is all about. There has been this question of what the role of the Member of Parliament in NG-CDF is. Many have been questioning this but we are saying that our role is oversight. So, where are you in the oversight positioning at the level of the constituency? You are there within the four who are now the oversight committee of the NG-CDF at the constituency level. I wanted to remind ourselves on this but what is really clear is that, that oversight is not given adequate resources for it to oversee the Fund at the constituency level. These are some of the things that I wanted to remind ourselves in a manner that next time or any other time we deal with issues of NG-CDF, we do it in time. Now we are in the second month and names have not been completed. I think today is when we got the last bunch of names, and we are already blaming the Attorney-General. I believe that if the Leader of the Majority Party pursues this matter, he will be asked: “Why do you want these things to be gazetted when they are less than 290? We have 290 constituencies?” So, I want to remind the House about that. Thank you very much."
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