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    "speaker_name": "Ainabkoi, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Samwel Chepkonga",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Speaker, as we speak, the people who are to be held responsible have since ceased working for the NG-CDF. It now becomes a Report on the misappropriation of funds by certain fund managers but as you know, criminal offences do not have a time limitation. Whether they have retired, resigned or their contracts have come to an end, they will still be held responsible under the criminal justice system. Once this Report is approved, the responsible agencies will certainly investigate them. One important thing that I must support in this Report is the removal of the National Treasury Manager being domiciled at the Sub-County Treasury. We support that this manager be appointed and be domesticated at the constituency development offices so that the auditors or the accountants that we have employed in our constituencies would work under them and increase their effectiveness. As we speak, when they are asked to write cheques, we have to wait for a long time due to the competing interests including the Deputy County Commissioner (DCC) and many other government agencies. Our cheques get delayed and as you know, bursaries do not wait for everyone. Students are being asked to pay school fees failure to which they are sent home. I remember an incident where because of the delay by the Treasury Manager in my constituency, I was at a far-flung area of my constituency, where a mother told me that her daughter had been sent home… I directed her to tell the daughter not to come because I would sort it out by Monday. She then said that she could not tell her not to come because she was already in a matatu and would arrive in ten minutes’ time. I could not stop her from going home since the parents had already paid money for transport. All this was because the treasury officer or manager had failed to write a cheque of Ksh10,000. We are not in charge and therefore we cannot inquire why they have not done so or disciplined them. It is important for this recommendation to be carried and implemented. Secondly, there is need to consider the formula that has been used in the division of the constituency development funds. I am aware of the relevant amendment that was made to the Constituency Development Act in June last year when most of the Members of Parliament had retired or had been removed in the nominations and had lost interest. In one of the amendments, the allocation of the NG-CDF will be based on the number of wards that a constituency has. This is highly faulty and unlawful. This is a constituency development fund and not a ward development fund. There is a criterion that was used in the Constitution to create the 290 constituencies to ensure that there is equity. There are a number of parameters and criteria that were used. For instance, North Horr Constituency is the size of Uasin Gishu County yet it is one constituency."
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