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    "speaker_name": "Ainabkoi, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Samwel Chepkonga",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, it was agreed that a fund be created to streamline this process, specifically to deal with the operations our troops participate in. Therefore, the Regulations put in place the National Peace Support Operations Fund so that the Government contributes or allocates Ksh1 billion to the Fund. Also, there will be an amount of Ksh6 billion received from the United Nations for the participation or salaries paid to our participating troops. The second thing that this Fund intends to achieve is to ensure the equipment we supply to our troops is in working condition. Members may not be aware that most of the countries that have contributed troops to peace missions send brand new equipment together with their troops. One of the things the United Nations pays for is the equipment contributed to peace missions. If the equipment remains unserviceable, it will not be paid for the period in which it remains idle. This means that the country will be losing revenue it would have received if we had good working equipment available to our troops. One of the things this Fund intends to do is to provide or kit our troops with modern and working equipment so that they are paid for the period in which troops are deployed in countries our country participates in. That is the main import. The rest of the regulations ensure that the Fund is operated; they deal with governance issues of the Fund, it is operated in such a way that it can be audited by the Auditor-General and follows all procedures dealing with the Public Finance Management Act. It is a very short regulation that ensures that our troops are well kitted, provided for and do not suffer consequences of not being paid monies yet we have deployed them. With those remarks, I move and would like to request Hon. Bashir, who was formerly a Major in the army, and participated in a number of peace keeping operations, to second this Motion. I thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker."
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