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    "id": 1238953,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui Central, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Makali Mulu",
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    "content": "The other important thing in this Report is that there is a clear indication of lack of capacity either at the NG-CDF managers level or at the Board level. The NG-CDF Board is supposed to approve projects and oversee day-to-day implementation. As we plan, we should include a regular capacity building programme for both staff, more so, the fund managers and the board members. At the end of the day, we will have qualified people to implement these projects and these small issues raised by the Auditor-General will die a natural death. Despite the issues raised by the Auditor-General, the NG-CDF programme remains the best in terms of minimal misappropriation of resources. If you tabulate the amount that is reported here to have been misappropriated, the percentage is very low compared to mismanagement at the national Government at 30 per cent and the county governments. This means that this programme is being implemented very well and we only need to address these small gaps raised by the Auditor-General for NG-CDF to continue helping Kenyans. Hon. Temporary Speaker, the other issue is that of the Auditor-General. When auditors come to your office, they come up with management letters. These letters are written to the managers indicating areas where they think they have not received the right information or where there are gaps. They then give one or two weeks to respond to their letters. Looking at this Report, most of the issues raised here concern record keeping where information is not provided on time. In this Report, they indicated that some managers provided the information later on. At the end of the day, there is need for the fund managers to continuously keep updating their records so that when the auditors go to their stations, they can provide the information on time. As a result, we will minimise some of these small issues. Some of the reported figures are Ksh30,000 or Ksh70,000 not accounted for. With proper record keeping, we can easily do away with this. Lastly, on the issue of marginalisation, I listened to a Member who said that the ward is a factor in distribution of resources. Irrespective of what formula is used to share resources— 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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