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    "id": 1018040,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "gave us somebody else to be in the PMC. Sitting in the PMC means that your voice is heard and it means that you are the one who ensures the tendering process is done well. It also means that the building will be done to your standard. The only challenge I see, as the Committee goes around, is that it should help us to take stock. The Committee should bring this amendment. We have an oversight committee that currently earns only Ksh30,000 a year yet it is expected to undertake its oversight mandate well. Sometimes we shoot ourselves in the foot as Members of Parliament. If our primary role is oversight, how can we be overseeing billions worth of projects with Ksh30,000 in a whole year? It means that even if we were to divide it, we would be spending, probably, Ksh2,000 on oversight in a year. That is something we need to do. There needs to be greater oversight from the Board of the fund account managers. You find a lot of challenges coming in the NG-CDF’s way are related directly to the fund account managers, yet when there is a problem, the first person who is called is the Member of Parliament. At one point, MPs need to go to court to challenge why an MP is dragged in when there is no direct link between an MP and any lost fund. That is actually an abuse of the process of law by bringing MPs into things that really do not concern them."
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