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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Soy, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Kiplagat",
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    "content": "We want to tell the Board that it is not the legislative authority. Let it read the NG-CDF Act, the Public Financial Management Act and all regulations. Whenever it releases a circular, it should be in tandem with the law and regulations. When it comes to employment of the NG- CDF staff, the law is very clear. The constituency committee is the one that creates offices as per need, but you will get a circular from the Board listing all the offices that constituency committees are supposed to create. Constituencies might have different requirements. For example, in Soy we have electricity challenges. We have even allocated a match-up fund of Ksh5 million to support the Government. We have issues of social welfare and education. We might require liaison officers within those critical areas to be updating us on what is going on in terms of utilisation of funds and the programmes we need to execute, but we are constrained by the Board. It gives itself powers that it does not have and purport to advise constituency committees on the offices they are supposed to create. When you think it is an advice, the fund manager tells you it is a law. We know that 6 per cent of the funds is meant for administration. Monitoring and evaluation, environment, and sports take a certain percentage. There are constraints when it comes to sports. When it comes to environmental programmes, you are told you can only take them to schools. You cannot support youth groups involved in growing tree seedlings. Sometimes you want to reduce administration cost. For example, if the total allocation increases, the administration cost should remain constant. The fund manager will insist that administration cost should also increase, but the money is not meant to finance any project. The Board should be less involved in the day-to-day management of the NG-CDF constituency committees. It should deal with policy. Whenever it develops policy, the policy should be in tandem with the law and all regulations that have been passed by the House. Let the Board not try to be the legislative arm. With those few remarks, Hon. Temporary Speaker, I support."
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