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    "speaker_name": "Molo, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
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    "content": "speaking about sanitary towels. Two weeks ago, we spent a whole afternoon talking about sanitary towels for girls. This House has already appropriated money for that. We should really not talk about it. Back to the subject matter before I am not ruled out of order for being out of topic, the genius of the NG-CDF and how it is run, makes it as the only Fund that you can go to constituencies across the country and identify projects that have been done at a low cost, completed and have an impact to the people. Sometimes when you compare a classroom constructed through the NG-CDF with a classroom constructed by the Infrastructure Fund by the Ministry of Education, you will find that the one done by the Ministry costs double the amount of money that the NG-CDF one coste and their quality is not even comparable. I have said severally on the Floor of this House that I am a product of the NG-CDF bursaries. The patron then was the former Member of Parliament for Molo, Hon. Mukiri Macharia, Wakili. If it were not for that bursary fund, I would never have seen my way through secondary school and through my bachelor’s degree at Kenyatta University. Therefore, I doubt that I would have ever seen myself being in the 12th Parliament and the 13th Parliament. I laud the Report that has been done by the Committee. I like the recommendation they have made of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the NG-CDF board to be made the accounting officer of the Fund. When auditors come to audit and verify whether the bursary cheques have been cleared and paid up in schools and find that their receipts are not available and they do not take time to go through the documents, the papers in the Report allude to the fact that it is the Member of Parliament of that particular constituency who is assumed to have misappropriated the funds. It is very important to put on record that the role of a Member of Parliament is to provide guidance on how that Fund is supposed to be spent, especially to provide oversight as the patron of the Fund. That is something that is being done by the Special Funds Accounts Committee through the Report that it has done on this Fund. The assumption the members of the public have is that Members of Parliament have a cheque book of the NG-CDF which they can use to issue out anything to anybody. I laud the Roport and its recommendation that projects being done by the NG-CDF should be done to completion. When I was elected as a Member of Parliament in 2017, most of the projects in Molo were being allocated peace-meal funds. A project will be allocated money that is not sufficient to finish it. Consequently, more money will be appropriated in the following financial years for the same project. If you look at the overall import of that arrangement, it is misguided because there is no value for money. If you go to audit such a project and find out how much money was spent on it, you will realise that it has very many grey areas. At the NG-CDF Committee of Molo Constituency, we have agreed that for the projects that we will fund, we will do them from start to completion. We would rather have fewer projects that are complete and available for use by users and get value for money than having too many small projects scattered around the constituency that are not complete. Through the NG-CDF in Molo, we have completely transformed the education sector including having two tertiary institutions. We have the Molo Technical and Vacation Training College that has now trained over 800 students from across the country. This project was started and competed through the NG-CDF. We have a Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) that we are pushing the Nursing Council to give us license to teach nursing courses at the school. The school has a population of more than 500 students drawn from across the country. When students come and study in Molo, it is not just for them to get education but it also spurs the economic growth in town. We pride ourselves in having other great institutions like the legendary St Andrew’s School, Turi a very high performing school; Mary Mount Secondary School; Molo Academy Primary School and Molo Academy Secondary School. We also have good performing day secondary schools like Njenga Karume Secondary School, Elburgon D.E.B Secondary School The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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