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    "speaker_name": "Eldama Ravine, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Musa Sirma",
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    "content": "great damage to the use of NG-CDF in the constituencies. We have recommended, as the Committee of Parliament, that no Fund Manager will be in one constituency for more than five years and for anybody who has gone beyond five years, we are going to transfer them and rotate them to the various constituencies within this country as they swore to serve in any constituency once they are employed. All that has brought a lot of confusion. Those who have overstayed in various constituencies have made life difficult to any sitting Member of Parliament while some of them have ensured that those Members lose. There is a constituency where one Fund Manager has presided over the change of four Members of Parliament, and that is unacceptable. We have made our recommendations and we are sure that within the next few days, that Fund Manager will leave that constituency. I would also like to ask Members, as they utilise these good funds which are meant to assist the children of Kenya in form of bursaries and the various infrastructural development within the constituencies, to put a keen eye on every usage of the funds because at times, some headteachers misappropriate that money. We have audit committees within the counties which are asleep or do not even want to monitor what the people who are utilising the money are using the funds for. We are going to put structures that will enable us to get first-hand information as a Committee so that we direct various audit committees to go and see the usage of that money in various constituencies. Hon. Temporary Speaker, there is also a balance of Ksh2.9 billion. I would like to tell the Members that the money has been appropriated in the Supplementary Budget. This translates to Ksh212 million per constituency. The first Ksh2 billion had been disbursed and the balance of the Ksh2.9 billion will be disbursed as soon as the National Treasury releases that amount of money. I beg to reply. Thank you."
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