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    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": "fund managers that they are civil servants and the law is very clear on that one. They cannot run away from their duties even for seven days. If that happens, then somebody has a right to say they are not there and they have a right to remove them. You know you can be sacked by the time you are finishing 14 days. I do not understand this thing of not being on duty when you are required there. The other thing we must look at are the few good district accounting officers. I know they are few. Sometimes you find you are very many in a constituency, like in Nairobi. My colleague, Mwafrika, will agree that the numbers are too huge. If you have a district accountant running four or five constituencies, I will tell you it is not easy. It is not easy signing cheques. We have to agree that the National Treasury has to re-think and see how to help district accountants in their work where the numbers are huge. I know they have never complained. I congratulate them, wherever they are. They have done their best, sometimes under pressure. It is very difficult for them. There is another thing that I have asked myself and I need to ask today so that it goes on record. We have been adding the percentages and saying it is 2 per cent now. You know we add the funds, but we never talk about how they will be spent. The brackets remain the same. Ask yourself what happens in all that. Nobody questions what happens with the resources that remain with the Board yet we have added them and the percentage remains the same. It is something we have to question. It is something we have to sit down and ask ourselves how to deal with. It is important for this House to have amendments on the Act, especially on the issue of social security. We need to start having education days and academic days in our constituencies. It is important to have competitions in our schools, maybe, five in each constituency. They could compete in science, mathematics, spelling, and so on. That should include ensuring past papers from Mtihani House reach children in schools. Hon. Temporary Speaker, Members need to be close to what is happening in their constituencies."
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