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    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support the Report. Being on this Committee, I had the privilege to go around the country, mostly in the Coast region and a few constituencies in Nyanza, and saw some of the projects we are talking about. It is very sad that a report on financial years 2013/2014, 2014/2015 and 2015/2016 comes to the House in 2023 and we expect to have results. Those people moved on. They have gone to other positions. They have also left another mess there. One really wonders what is happening. The Auditor-General should help us. If we really want to put in measures, the Auditor-General should help the country by bringing these reports a bit earlier, so that we can have some critical answers when there are issues affecting public financial resources. I found very sad recommendations when I read the whole Report. If there is a Fund that is very easy to audit, it is the NG-CDF. It is simple because it has a much-itemised budget. You find it clear on amounts put in, maybe, 35 per cent or 2 per cent, and you cannot go beyond that. We are talking about financial years 2013/2014 to 2015/2016 and 2016/2017 when we had changed the law. As much as they have spent public resources, it becomes difficult. You know anyone who runs to court will use very many words to run around and avoid accounting for what they have done. For us to move forward, one of the things we have to do, and the Board must appreciate, is to have the Committee in Parliament retreating with them. I also know there are those who have issues with Members of Parliament. We can even have a sub-committee within our Committee to first look at the issues, and then we will go for a retreat so that all these things are checked. We need to have clear recommendations on how to move forward. We should not have Members getting disgruntled because of the behaviour of fund managers. I want to tell 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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