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"content": "It is as a result of the appraisal of Phase I of KKV that the World Bank decided that it would get involved in the Kenya Youth Empowerment Programme or KKV II. As I have said, and as I now emphasize, KKV I was an emergency stimulus intervention designed to provide a social safety landing net to avert Kenyans from the risk of hunger and starvation. The programme was implemented by six Ministries; namely, Ministry of Roads, Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources, Ministry of Water and Irrigation, Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife, Ministry of Regional Development Authorities, Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Local Government. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Office of the Prime Minister provided the overall supervision of the programme while the Office of the President, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Planning, National Development and Vision 2030 provided support services on monitoring and coordination aspects. As the ILO pointed out, the number of youth engaged under the KKV I exceeded the original target of 10 per cent. All in all, the Government contributed Kshs2.8 billion to KKV I in the Financial Year, 2008/2009 and Kshs4.3 billion in the Financial Year, 2009/2010. Sixty eight per cent of the funding was paid out to the youth as wages while 21 per cent was used to purchase tools, equipment and seedlings, among other things, and 11 per cent covered administrative costs. However, being a project that was conceived in a hurry in order to respond to the urgent needs of the time, certain weaknesses became apparent, which prompted my office to ask for an audit of the entire project. A value for money audit of the KKV1 was carried out by the Internal Audit Department of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance. Dated July, 2010, the audit report indicated that during the financial years 2008/2009 and 2009/2010, a total of Kshs7.5 billion was disbursed to 11 Ministries for projects under KKV1 on a first-come, first-served basis. Of this amount, Kshs308,116,547, being 4.08 per cent of the total disbursement, was confirmed by the audit to be ineligible expenditure. The various categories of the ineligible expenditures were: Kshs85,022,079 not related to the objectives of KKV; Kshs110,249,125 was without supporting documents; Kshs22,040,918 had integrity issues such as fraudulently altered entries; Kshs26,352,120 was expenditure on normal recurrent ministerial operations; then Kshs64,352,308 was expenditure on activities whose procurement was not competitive."
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