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    "speaker_name": "Kitui Central, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Makali Mulu",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Before that unnecessary interruption, I join my colleagues in saying congratulations to this Committee led by my friend, Hon. Gideon Mulyungi. Upon listening to him and reading this Report, I think if we start discussing the success story of NG-CDF it will take a whole year for this House to conclude that discussion. If you travel to every part of this country, you will see evidence of what NG-CDF can do in changing the lives of Kenyans, more so in a positive way. When I listened to Hon. Gideon Mulyungi present this Report and try to isolate the few areas where we need to improve, I really want to say congratulations to the Committee. A number of observations and recommendations have been made by this Committee and I want to single out a few just to explain what is happening. First is a situation where projects are started by Members of Parliament and when there is change of leadership, those projects are never completed. What the Committee is saying is, it is important that the NG- CDF Board makes sure that all projects being funded are completed within the timeframe of a particular Member of Parliament. If you do proper public participation in your constituency, you will realise that the projects which are being funded are actually proposed by the voters in that particular constituency. The issue of not completing a project because the person you succeeded lost an election does not make sense at all. As patriots, we really need to stick to that recommendation and make sure that it is implemented. This will ensure that when a project is started, it is completed for the benefit of the constituents irrespective of who the sitting Member of Parliament is. Second is the issue of bursary checks. The Committee says there are bursaries issued but there is no supporting document to show that the money reached the school. I would like to support a recommendation by one of the earlier speakers that when you go to a county it would be good to do a report from 2013 to date because most of the recommendations cut across. It would be good to get updated reports so that we move to the future and ensure we do not have to go back to that county again and start from 2016. The further back you go, the report becomes irrelevant. It is important to fully sort one county and proceed to another until we sort it fully. I want to agree with Hon. Kimani Kuria on the matter of bursaries, when he says that a majority of the youth would not have gone to universities or secondary schools were it not for bursaries. That is why Members of Parliament need to take this issue seriously. Bursaries have transformed families and individuals. You realise that a family could not have afforded fees, but because we have managed to support one or two students, that family picks up and moves forward. When the Auditor-General goes out there, it would be important to take their time and look at whether the money reached the school before they start saying accounting documents are not there. If the money reached the school and it is only the document which is not available, we can ask for it to be provided. Otherwise, it would be very unfair to have reports which show 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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