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    "id": 1102728,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1102728/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 297,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
        "slug": "amos-kimunya"
    },
    "content": "Social Assistance Act was promulgated in 2013. It was supposed to help sort out the mechanisms of identifying who is vulnerable, modalities of identifying how the money will be disbursed, and even increasing the money and the transfer mechanisms. This was pursuant to Article 43 (1) (e) of the Constitution, which provided for this assistance to the people. This Act went on to even create a Social Assistance Authority and, like I said, the criteria for determining who benefits and all that. The fund that was created was never operationalised because of inconsistencies with other laws particularly, the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act, which basically sets out how funds may be created. So, we have an Act, the National Social Authority, the Social Assistance Act all purporting to create a fund, yet those funds are supposed to be done through the PFM Act. Despite the good intentions, that fund has never been operationalised because of inconsistencies in the law. Looking through various bottlenecks that have been identified, the question begs: how do you transfer challenges? So long as you are touching on the PFM Act, you end up with other challenges."
}