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    "speaker_name": "Kimilili, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Didmus Barasa",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. If you go through the reports by the Auditor-General, you cannot doubt any single word. Even as we all agree that NG-CDF has done a very good job across this country, some of the audit queries raised touch on the competency of the Fund Account Managers (FAMs), who are the accounting officers. It is very important that the Board recruit competent FAMs. When these reports raise flimsy audit queries, people tend to think that the Member of Parliament is to blame and yet, our role, as clearly stated in the law, is to provide oversight. I challenge the NG-CDF Committee to ensure that any fund manager whose account has been audited and very flimsy audit queries raised should be held to account, and trained further so that we do not allow very flimsy audit queries to dent the reputation of the good impact that NG-CDF is doing. Lastly, Hon. Speaker, we are at the tail-end of the financial year, and I kindly urge the National Treasury to release the pending money for NG-CDF so that even the new Members of Parliament can begin to rubber-stamp their entry into political leadership by, at least, launching projects in their constituencies. As we speak, there is nothing they can write home about. We hope that our economy will improve quickly so that the money can keep flowing, we can continue paying bursaries for our children, and we can continue building and improving our educational infrastructure for various schools across this country. As I finish, I wish that county governments could borrow a leaf on how NG-CDF is managed, so that we do not hear of situations where we have pending bills, projects that previous governments abandoned, and projects that are initiated and have no impact on the people. With those few remarks, I wish to support this Motion."
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