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    "id": 1336735,
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    "speaker_name": "Mwingi Central, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Mulyungi",
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    "content": "on the spot and not the fund manager, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), the NG-CDF Committee or the Project Management Committee (PMC). Therefore, the Committee recommended that: 1. The Board should ensure that fund account managers comply with provisions of Section 6(2)(1)(b) and (c) of the Public Audit Act No.34 of 2015. 2. The NG-CDF Board should issue an administrative circular directing fund account managers to comply with provisions of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010, the Public Audit Act No.34 of 2015, the Public Finance Management Act No.18 of 2012, and the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act No.33 of 2015. 3. The NG-CDF Board should also ensure that fund account managers maintain the original Project Management Committee file at the NG-CDF office while the duplicate is maintained by the Project Management Committee at the project site to ensure that documents are available to auditors when they visit the office. 4. The NG-CDF Board should ensure that constituency committees employ qualified accountants for constituency offices beginning Financial Year 2023/2024 within the 6 per cent administrative allocation to the NG-CDF Committee. That will strengthen maintenance of books of accounts and preparation of financial statements. The NG-CDF Act, 2015 designates fund account managers as accounting officers thus creating 291 centres of power. That is not appropriate. That is why many Members are experiencing problems with fund account managers. The CEO has no control since the Act stipulates that the fund account manager is the accounting officer for the constituency. I will, therefore, propose an amendment to remove fund account managers as the designated Authority to Incur Expenditure (AIE) holders by law and give that mandate to CEOs to appoint fund account managers as AIE holders. The law as it is has created 291 accounting officers. In my view, that is a lacuna in the law. Finally, I commend the CEO of the board for ensuring that a majority of the Fund’s managers prepared their responses on time and presented to the Committee as scheduled. I also commend project management committees in constituencies for engaging the public in project identification, ensuring that priority projects that had the most significant benefits to the communities were implemented. The majority of these projects were on infrastructural development in various public schools and utilities. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I express appreciation to your office and the Office of the Clerk of the National Assembly for the enormous support you gave to my Committee. As I conclude, I also thank the Members of the Committee. They made time to attend and participate in Committee deliberations during the consideration of the Report. Finally, I thank the Auditor-General’s Parliamentary Liaison Office, the National Treasury, and the Committee Secretariat for facilitating the Committee in the production of this Report. Your invaluable contribution greatly enriched this Report. I now call upon Hon. Muthoni Ikiara, nominated Member of Parliament from Meru County, to second the Motion. I urge the House to adopt the Report. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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