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    "id": 1017954,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Igembe North, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Maoka Maore",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Richard Maore Maoka",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, on the issue of NG-CDF, we have seen what it has been doing in the last 17 years. In addition, it is important to say that the most important part of the NG-CDF we can actually debate is the audit. Moreover, the feedback from the experts on what has actually happened on the ground with this money is that the entire country has been transformed. It is in the 1980s and 1990s and even the early parts of this millennium when we were seeing most of the classrooms in the country being of either mud or badly done. I do not have a story to say why we have the same 17 years later after the introduction of NG-CDF. Therefore, when you listen to what has happened or what has been reported by the Chair, I concur but I wanted to remind my predecessor in speaking about the issue of audit. There are actually two audits. There is an audit done by the NG-CDF Board, that is the internal audit and then there is the Auditor-General’s. Therefore, I believe the report that he is talking about having leakages is not from the Auditor-General. What we are facing as people in the field is the feedback. In addition, I wanted to explain something they are calling retention money. If you give a job to somebody to build a classroom and the price may be Kshs800,000 or Kshs900,000, then you are told you are having a retention fee of 10 per cent, the 10 per cent you are talking about is actually beyond the profit of some of the projects, given the cost or the size of it. Therefore, I think we need to reflect and also seek exemption of the CDF projects from those retention fees because it is very little amount of money we are talking about. Moreover, we are talking about the projects. Let us say you have done 60 projects and then you are doing retention for each of them, you will be causing chaos in the communities that are supposed to benefit from constructing or doing those businesses or those jobs. So those who are doing Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA) jobs there might be Kshs4 million or Kshs6 million maximum or average. When you are doing a job of Kshs6 million you do not have any retention money but, if you do a classroom of Kshs600,000, you are doing 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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