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    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Millie Odhiambo-Mabona",
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    "content": "Before I finish, we have focused a lot on the brick and mortar issues. However, the NG- CDF has done a lot on software in terms of mentorship. In Suba North, we are about to launch two books for our high school students and university students under a programme called “I Am a Winner”, which is both a scholarship and mentorship programme that helps to produce professionals within the constituency. It is not just about brick and mortar issues. I wish that the NG-CDF had taken over some responsibilities from county governments because many of them have failed us. They have more resources than us, but their products are embarrassing. Sometimes we have to be innovative and creative to meet county governments demands which have not been met and yet, the communities need them. Finally, there is one thing that I want to say in terms of audit. Because the NG-CDF helps many people, I encourage the auditors to be serious when auditing it. Let them not engage in any monkey business with it. In this country, it is very difficult to be ethical and a person of integrity. Ethical people and persons of integrity are hounded by these auditors. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I think I have shared with you before that when I first got into the NG- CDF, I was informed that there could be a case of misappropriation. Being the nice and ethical person that I am, I came and reported the issue, and asked that my fund account manager be removed and requested for an internal audit. I have regretted to date why I bothered to be a good citizen. We were given false audit creating fake schools and purported misappropriation. Different Government agencies that are supposed to ensure that people do the right thing are busy following you to give them bribes of Ksh3 million. I told them to go to hell. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I was with you when I took this matter to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC). I am sad that to date, that matter has not been followed up. You give a wrong and false audit and say that a school in Suba North does not exist and it is imaginary, and yet we gave you bank records that show that the school was given money. This is merely because we have refused to give you Ksh3 million. Members of Parliament here are shy and do not want to say the things that go on with the NG-CDF in terms of our oversight role. Why? It is because they know that if they speak, they will be targeted. I am willing to be targeted so that things can be right. We are tired of being asked money. When auditors start to audit, the first thing they ask is for you to pay money upfront. If you do not do so, your results are qualified. Continue qualifying, but you need to do the right thing. I will speak the correct things until I leave this House. Even if I am sacrificed for speaking the truth I will do so. We need to do the right thing for Kenyans we came here to serve, and not to take away money from them. I encourage the NG-CDF office in Nairobi to look into how that audit was done so wrongly that it is embarrassing. When I showed them evidence and proof that all the things that were presented were false, no action has been taken against the auditor who wrote that report to date. The EACC has not done anything. Instead, you get the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and other agencies following you and asking for bribes every now and then. Shame on you! The next time you call me, I will mention you here by name. Stop following us for bribes. If we do not speak these things, nobody will. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I support the Motion. Let the auditors know that their work is to serve Kenyans and not to harass them."
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