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"speaker_name": "Malava, ANC",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Malulu Injendi",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this chance to say something about this. Malava is one of the constituencies that the Committee looked at in its reports. I thank the Committee for the good work. It is, indeed, good. I also appreciate them for the approach they adopted of getting into a county and looking at all the constituencies within that county. However, if you look at these reports, they are very old. They range from 2013/2014, 2014/2014 and 2015/2016. Those are three financial years, but they are very old. I would request that when you get into a county, instead of looking at only three very old years, they focus on all the years that we have had a report on. For example, up to maybe the last financial year. As much as we get these reports, in my view, they are stale. If I can give an example from the report, particularly for Malava, there was an issue on cash and cash equivalents. The Committee, because of the audit reports that were talking about 2010, 2011 and 2012 issues, had to ask the Fund Manager about some receipts of those years. Among them, there was an issue affecting the 2006. We have a report before us for the 9th Parliament, because of the year 2006. If you look from 2010 to 2013, that is the 10th Parliament. For me who is sitting in the 13th Parliament, those are very old years. Some of the Members of Parliament, who were serving then and who were directly under NG-CDF, have passed on. This report then, does not really become very useful to us who are serving in the present, who would really want to understand. Members of Parliament now are not really part of the NG-CDF. We would also want to know how our fund managers are performing. On this, I thank the Committee because from its report, Malava has been given a clean bill of health. All issues raised, like emergency money being used on projects that are not meant for emergency, and where land has been purchased but then there is no title to prove that it was purchased, were clarified. I thank my Fund Manager, who was not there then but ensured that all these items were availed for verification. The Seconder of the Motion congratulated me because I was one of the constituencies that ensured all projects that I found progressing, were completed. I really suffered. For three financial years, I committed funds just to complete projects of my predecessor. The Board should look at this and inform strictly that if there is any project that Mheshimiwa or NG-CDF Committee is coming up with, it must be completed within the term of that Parliament. I also understand that the Board allows a particular phase of a project to be completed. I want to give an example of Lurambi Constituency, but My brother is not here. There was a huge project of four-storeyed building. The Member of Parliament who was there only did a part of it. Two Members of Parliament who have been there have not been able to complete because the kind of money required there is the whole of NG-CDF funds. I would wish that before they approve a project, they must ensure that it will be completed within the term of that Parliament, for this case 13th Parliament. If it is a ghorofa of three floors, then it must be completed within that period. I thank the Committee for this nice report. This is like a mirror; we should look at ourselves through it because it projects what we are doing. If people from Malava are listening to this, I want to tell them that Malava Constituency got a clear scorecard. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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