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"content": " Be very brief."
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"content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, I want to thank Hon. Makali Mulu for raising this matter. We have been going to the NG-CDF Board since the beginning of the year, and also before we went on the long recess. The NG-CDF is not just any common fund. It allows the young people in the Public Gallery to go to school. Children in many parts of this country, particularly those in arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) and rural areas, are fully dependent on t the NG-CDF. For that reason, the issue is not about the availability of the committees or the Board. If funds are available, they should be automatically remitted to the constituency fund managers. For that reason, without wasting a lot of time and making this House a talk show, we must be told when the funds will be available so that we can dispense with the bursaries."
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"content": " Proceed, Hon. Osoro"
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"content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. This is one of the rare moments when I remove the hat of the Chief Whip of the Majority Party and speak as the Member for South Mugirango Constituency. The NG-CDF affects us all regardless of which side of the political divide we come from. It is something that all Member hold close their hearts. As Hon. Elachi has said, I want to set the record straight that some money has been released to the Board. I hear Ksh30 million is supposed to be sent to each constituency in the course of the week. But that is not the point. The issue is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the NG-CDF. When Mr Yusuf was acting as the CEO in the last Parliament before this House approved him. He was very competent, approachable, reachable and easily available to Members. He would listen to us. I do not know what happened to him immediately he was confirmed. The gentleman has changed and became something else. Some of the questions the Members are asking could easily be answered by the CEO of the Board, but he is no longer available to Members. He has turned out to be too big for Members to access him. He is presumably even over-running the Board. The question is not even the provision or the availability of funds. Even the approval of the proposals has not been done even after the release of the Ksh30 million. Therefore, the amount does not have expenditure votes. We cannot spend it. We will have it in the accounts, but the fund managers will tell you that the proposals have not been approved and, therefore, they are waiting for the approvals from Nairobi because the Board has not sat. That is the question. We need to re-direct our energy to where our pain comes from. The pain comes from the NG-CDF Board and the CEO. When we reconstitute the committees on Wednesday, 4th March 2025, we need to summon them to appear before this House."
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"content": "Sometimes, the money is released from the National Treasury, but the Board keeps it to themselves for one, two or three months. When they eventually release the funds to the constituencies, they do that without the expenditure votes following the funds. So, we end up having money in the accounts that cannot be spent. That is why we should have a CEO in acting capacity rather than holding that office substantively. When Yusuf Mbuno was holding that The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"content": "office in acting capacity, he was the best. We need CEOs in that office in acting capacity. Confirming people in that office only for them to behave this way is really messy. At such a point, some of us remove the hats we hold as Whip of the Majority Side and speak as Members because this thing affects us also."
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"content": "It is three months since we advertised for the bursaries and our young people filled the forms, but we do not have the funds. Why, really? Who do we defend here? I choose to stand at the point of the poor parents in my constituency. I choose to stand on the side of the students in my constituency. Therefore, the Board should face the Committee and explain what the problem is. With those remarks, I beg to submit."
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"content": " Hon. Owen Baya, do you want to add something?"
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"content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker…"
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"content": " Just before you weigh in on this matter, what is it Hon. Caroli?"
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